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When you stop white blood growth factors you will see anywhere from a 50% - 70% drop in the ANC. That is expected and scarey. So at one point her ANC was 3340 with the growth factor. A 50 % drop would make it 1670 and 70% drop would make it 902. It takes a bit for the body to adjust to not having external growth factors. John's dropped down to 700 for quite a while. White blood cells are the shortest lived of the blood cells lasting for only 3 -4 days in the blood before they move on. When John stopped his white blood cell growth factor, Neupogen, he went from daily shots to 3x week, to 2x week, to 1x week and then stopped completely. So it wasn't so dramatic for him.
I hope her platelets are holding.
Take care....M
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Marlene, wife to John DX w/SAA April 2002, Stable partial remission; Treated with High Dose Cytoxan, Johns Hopkins, June 2002. Final phlebotomy 11/2016. As of July 2021 HGB 12.0, WBC 4.70/ANC 3.85, Plts 110K.
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