Hi everyone! Happy Holidays to you all....
I have been on 100 mg Sprycel for three weeks, and due to neutropenia, I am on a medication freeze until my counts are back up. I do have confidence in my Dr and I really like her, however I am frustrated that she started me on 100 mg. I’m a small person who typically responds very well to medication and experience all of the side effects. At my initial visit, I asked to be given a lower dose but was told that Dr needed to see what happened the first few months before considering a lower dose. At the time I took that as a reasonable answer/. With the call this morning informing me that I needed to stop sprycel and continue weekly checks, I’m committed to a dose reduction before restarting. Hopefully my doctor will agree.... I don’t want to stop taking sprycel because even on this dose with my counts so low, I feel pretty good physically. Emotionally this freeze has me pretty low because I now feel more vulnerable physically now. I’ve read scuba’s history and it does give me great hope that this will resolve with time, but drug intolerance makes me very nervous. Do you think that these low counts at 3 weeks is a bad sign of things to come? When I started Sprycel my WBC count was at 81k.
Thanks again for any advice. My current results are pasted below. My platelets were doing great but really tanked this week.....
% Neutrophils
Your Value
41.3 %
Neutrophils
Your Value
0.70 THO/uL
Standard Range
1.80 - 7.50
% Lymphocytes
Your Value
43.4 %
% Monocytes
Your Value
12.1 %
% Eosinophils
Your Value
2.3 %
% Basophils
Your Value
0.9 %
#
# Lymphocytes
Your Value
0.80 THO/uL
Standard Range
1.00 - 5.00 THO/uL
# Monocytes
Your Value
0.20 THO/uL
Standard Range
0.10 - 1.00 THO/uL
# Basophils
Your Value
0.00 THO/uL
# Eosinophils
Your Value
0.00 THO/uL
Red Blood Cells
Your Value
3.04 MIL/uL
Hemoglobin
Your Value
9.5 g/dL
Hematocrit
Your Value
28 %
RDW
Your Value
22.7 %
MCH
Your Value
31 pg
MCHC
Your Value
33 g/dL
MCV
Your Value
94 fL
Platelets
Your Value
81 THO/uL
