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Hello Cindy,
Thanks so much for all your posts which help others out there that might have to take Vidaza in the future. I hope that your husband is continuing to recuperate from his infection. I am posting this just because your husband's experience with other specialists is very typical and all of us with bone marrow diseases and low counts, especially WBCs and platelets need to be wary when we are given a new drug by someone other than our hematologists. Often these other specialists may not even know what the diagnoses of MDS or AA mean and what the possible risks of other drugs may do to patient's blood counts or risks of bleeding and infection. I would recommend that patients always check with their hematologist before taking any new drug prescribed by another specialists to make sure that it will not possibly interfere with their counts. Of course there is always a risk/benefit assessment to make before using any drug or treatment. Sometimes the communication between different doctors taking care of the same patient is not always ideal and patients need to make sure that "they are all on one page."