Rituxan complete now we wait

Hello,

My wife received her final dose of Rituxan last wednesday, and has thus been responding to it quite well. Before her Rituxan treatment her count was 33 on 60mg Prednisone. After her first infusion a week later her cout was 113, 2nd infusion her count was 150, 3rd infusion her count was 200, no labs drawn before her 4th infusion. Today was her first follow up after her final Rituxan dose and her count dipped back to 145. Looks like the Dr is going to stop her Prednisone taper for now and take another lab next week to see if the Rituxan is doing its job, then start to taper by 5mg until they feel she's out of the woods (for now).

Again, I know everyone is different however, is it normal to see such a swing in counts over a short period on strong medication when she was showing a good response to start?

Just looking for some words of encouragement.

God Bless

Jay

Jay,

Anything can, and does, happen with ITP. Of course there is a lot of reason to hope! Just like counts can go down, they can also go back up.

hellow


i am 37 years old discover itp during the pregnancy but the number was 70-120000 platlet
suddnely after i do operation to get birth the twin - 4 months after i get birth it was 42000
and after 2 months it become 6000 with out bleeding at all.
with 10 m"g of prednizon my platlet is 50000 -80000
i took rituxmab 4 week finish it in 4/7/12 the doctor disapointed the number was 35000-50000
in november after 4 months it bcame 100000 and kast week 117 and today 86 i was sick and after flight
must tell- in july after i took the rituxmab i move to another country to singapore change weather and after 4 months the platlets grow - until last week 117 and today 86000
what do you think is the because the ritxmab? because it start to work after 5 months and not more than 117 can i recover and stay between 80000-10000
or maby i change weather? how can i know it stop the affect because i am not bleeding?is it possible the mabtera killed the bad cell for good?