Hi CR,
You are right about Vidaza - during the first cycles all counts can decrease. Your husband can get transfusions for low red blood cells and Neupogen injections or similar drugs for low white blood cells but for low platelets most patients can only get platelet transfusions and they don't last long.
One patient in this forum, Kirby, is receiving a new drug, Promacta, for low platelets. That drug has only been approved for a bleeding disease called Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura and it is probably difficult to get it for our disease.
Very good that the blasts had decreased
! It is true that most counts vary much - I don't think they can measure everything exactely.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A