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Vidaza
Dear djopierce,
Low counts after the firsts cycles of Vidaza are common and many patients get severe infections like your father. Hopefully the antibiotics will have effect - in many cases they never find the reason for the infection and try different antibiotics. Good that they give blood, platelets and Neupogen or a similar drug for low white blood cells.
Neupogen only lasts a few days - when I had neutropenic fever and my neutrophils (a kind of white blood cells) were 0.1 I received Neupogen every day until my white blood cells were OK.
Don't give up hope - your father tolerated the Vidaza injections and is probably healthy except for MDS and that is important for the prognosis.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
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