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Old Fri Sep 11, 2009, 11:20 PM
Laura Laura is offline
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taper of immunosuppressants

When did people start tapering their immunosuppressive drugs post-transplant? What was the schedule they followed? I am on day 85 and my doctor has decided to start tapering my Prograf 0.5 mg every two weeks.

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Old Sun Sep 13, 2009, 10:37 AM
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Hi Laura,

Just saw your question this morning. I looked back at Evan's journal and noted that we started the MMF taper on Day+126 and finished MMF altogether on Day+173. Evan did develop some patchy pink dry skin areas on his back and neck during the wean but it wasn't thought to be GVH but rather viral driven or eczema. It waxed and waned but never bothered Evan. It disappeared completely within a few months, I think..

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Old Mon Sep 14, 2009, 08:23 PM
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thanks

Thanks for the info Nicole!
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Old Thu Sep 17, 2009, 11:23 AM
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Tapering

I had the same question, I think you are on a lot higher dose than me. I am on 2 mg a day of prograf but also all the predisone which is down to 60 and of course the Valcyte which I just cut in half so I was hoping that my counts would come up a tad?. All of this stuff together really makes me shake. I can barely write! Oh well no biggy. I certainly do not want to regress though!
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Old Thu Sep 17, 2009, 12:52 PM
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Day 71

The big consultant just told me a few minutes ago that they're going to start tapering me off the cyclosporin, hooray!!! It's about the only good news I have right now, being readmitted and looking at a possible 6-wks inside for liver infection. But I'll post that in my thread.

Anyway yeah he said they start to taper patients at around 2 mos who haven't shown any signs of gvh. I'm currently on 225mg per day and i'm looking forward to getting off cyclo entirely as it seems to be causing most of my other problems and half my meds are purely to counteract the cyclo side effects!
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Old Thu Sep 17, 2009, 10:00 PM
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Your infection

Melissa, I am so sorry, please try to keep your spirits up!
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