@Neil thanks for the links. It looks success with unrelated donors has been rising at a much greater clip than the related donor success rates. That's good news for me, if I ever have to undergo the procedure.
@Ken thanks for checking out my site. You might be right that I was VSAA; to be honest I didn't know there was a VSAA versus SAA distinction. My doc referred to my initial diagnosis as severe a few years back, and I just ran with that. As for my transfusion timeline, I think it took about 2 months of transfusions before my counts started to trickle up "on their own". Have you considered the Apotex brand cyclosporine? That was given to me a couple of months back when my other brand was out of stock. I think the Apotex are considerably less stinky... though my nose could just be dead to the smell after 6 years of taking them.
