told to stop interferon

[jt57]

Had cbc today.  wbc 1.8
                        anc  .8
                        hgb  9.2
                        plt    40

My GP called my hep dr. and he said to stop the interferon and have cbc next week.  In my opinion, I think we should be discussing reduction in dosage, not stopping.  But I have had this sort of issue with my dr. in the past....

What do you guys think?

Jean

[comeagain]

I thought so about the procrit thx for confirming.

Jt cant  be cirrhotic with a intial platelet count of 251 though I know woman has a higher rate the men.
Why is her platelets falling this much could it be that she is extra sensitiv to interferon in some way ?

[can-do-man]

Being cirrhotic my platelet levels are always low, before tx they always were between 80 and 90,000. during my last tx mine got as low as 30,000 and my hepo wasn't cocerned. Platelets are always lower during tx but seemed to bounce around quite a bit. Even off tx mine bounce quite often. anywhere from 70 to 100,000.

CA, procrit has nothing to do with your platelet level.

[sunqueen]

jt - I'm going to chime in and agree that you should see your treating doctor.  I just had nearly two weeks worth of crazy-making with endless calls - doctors offices (the people who answer phones and relay messages) - university hospital nurses and pharmaceutical reps. You should stop. You should continue. Argh! It took less than 5 minutes of face to face time with my doctor to fix the problem. I'd like a copy of the guidelines so that I could burn them.

Good luck to you. I hope it resolves well.

[geterdone]

Yeah, I hit a stretch of that also during treatment but the procrit helped some yet the Viagra put things in to prospective and even may have helped with the clearing of the virus. Ya know being seen by the T helpers and all that, lol.

geterdone

[comeagain]

not impotent  the platelet fall it should be importent.

[comeagain]

geter i think you are making a serious point here about the plate let drop never heard of such a drop before wonder what the reason for that can be, I started with 193 after 6 days they went down to 123 then one week later up to 163  after 2months 173 and the last months down to 140 and stayed there.

I didn´t know procrit has anything to do with platelets!!!

Jt you got a point in that your doc has seemed two eager to stop medication before, a second opinion sounds appropriate.

If anybody knows anything about this plateletfall please chime because I think its impotent aswell as interesting.

And Jt thx for upgrading your profil best of luck i´ll be rooting for you big time.

ca