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Promacta update - week 20

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15 years 7 months ago #5381 by weirdjack
Promacta update - week 20 was created by weirdjack
Saw my hematologist this past Monday. Not much to report: 40k . A good count for me.
It is working, but I will be staying on the maximum dosage of 75mg a day. Side-effects remain the same, but are far more tolerable for me than are steroids or immune suppressants. I began Promacta after 40mg/day of Cyclosporine stopped working for me.
Here are my Promacta history count highlights:

01-15-10 - 4k (50mg/day)
01-22-10 - 14k (50mg/day)
03-04-10 - 32k (75mg/day)
03-25-10 - 52k (75mg/day)
05-20-10 - 47k (75mg/day)
06-07-10 - 40k (75mg/day)

Anything over 30k is quite high for me, so I am happy.

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15 years 7 months ago #5392 by hairball01
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Hairball sez; I looked at the Clinical Study for those taking 50mg Promacta. At 18 weeks the median was 61k and the range was 3k to 363k. You are not that far from expectations. Like you, I would be happy with a consistant, reliable, predictable 30k+ count.

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