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Originally Posted by Warburg
How old are you? could you tell us what happened with your bone marrow biopsy?
Your blood-cell count was not at all terrible.
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My BMT showed ess than 10% cellularity (I'm 52). Diagnosed with AA in March at Upenn.
Currently running Day 4 hATG at UPenn with Promacta - it's been a bit bumpy but getting through it!
Only in this context would someone say those counts aren't terrible LOL but I know what you mean! My platelets hovered in the 20s before treatment, but my Hg went down quite a bit and I needed a couple of rbc transfusions. Luckily my ANC only went down to 1.3, but it was clear that things were not likely to trend upwards. My doctor did not consider watch and wait to be appropriate, and I elected to just jump into hATG now. I'm glad I did, because it's been quite hard on me, and I'm not sure I'd be able to get thru it if my AA had progressed farther!
Almost thru it and praying it works!