Guest guest Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 Dear friends, I had my first blood test a week after I left hospital from treatment with Rituximab and chlorambucil, and I thought you might be interested to see how things are moving. Considering that my platelets were only 6 in hospital, things are not too bad. WBC 26.3 Lymnphocyte count 23.4 Hb 11.8 RBC 3.81 Neutrophil count 2.4 Platelets 20. the list is quite long so I do not want to bore you with all the details, just what I thought were important. On the other good things apart from feeling ok and having had no side efects at all, my lymph nodes have gone down much faster than it did when I was just on prednisolone last May. I can now feel the muscles of my neck, where as before I had a mass of nodes that made my neck a bit square, of course as it is Winter here non of these show to the naked eye, but I know they are there. I am now on 10 mg. of Prednisolone per day for another 2 weeks and I have finished the chlorambucil (6 mg.). So I am having two weeks off that as well. We will wait for this week's blood test and see how it goes. although the results look encouraging, I am more concerned about the length of time that will keep low after treatment is finished. At this moment we have not decided how many rounds I will need or will have. I have been good and sensible in some ways, eating well and going to bed more or less in good time, but yesterday and today I have been a bit tired, I guess the accumulation of all the work I have done over the last 7 days. I will let you know the new results this week, I have the blood test done on Wednesdays. with best wishes Chonette (UK) dx 10-02 (aged 57) Sept 04 Prednisolone 50 mg. December 04 low doses chlorambucil 2 mg. per day 11 weeks in total from Dec. 04 to Sept. 05. May 05 Prednisolone 50 mg. January 23rd 06 Rituximab 550 ml. Chlorambucil 6 mg. for 14 days. Prednisolone 50 mg. for 7 days and then tailing down to 10 mg. over 7 days. Continuing 10 mg. a day untill next round, this is to help platelets to go up. Quote
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