New Member - PRCA
I am a 60 year old active woman that seemed to loose all energy over this last summer. I kept putting off going to the doctor thinking that I must be getting low on iron -- having recently become vegetarian.
By the time I saw my doctor -- she sent me straight to hospital. My hematocrit was 17. Four pints of blood on Halloween for me. I have been diagnosed with PRCA -- possibly associated with a thymoma removed in early 2001, or a medication I had been directed to take within the last year. I was somewhat stable the first few weeks blood draws -- but just took my second transfusion of one pint (hematocrit down to 21.9).
I just started taking 100 mg cyclosporine 3 times a day.
Here's hoping!
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