So after 2 years of begging my oncologist to let me try 20 mg/day of Sprycel, he finally relented and wrote the Rx. I have been on it for almost 2 weeks now and for the past 3 days, have had a fairly persistent mostly dry cough, occasional mild shortness of breath at rest (not during exercise which for me is 2 miles per day on the treadmill) and occasional mild burning in my chest/lung area.
Sounds like a Sprycel side effect to me. Is this possible given the short duration of treatment and the very low dose? If so, might it go away once my body gets used to it? I'm already thinking about going back to low dose Tasigna, but I switched from that because of irregular heartbeat (benign ectopic beats) and progression of peripheral neuropathy from stage 1 - stage 2, both of which have improved since stopping Tasigna.
I realize that it's probably too soon to give up on Sprycel, I'm a bit perplexed and frustrated thus far.