ok got it all printed out and will call doctor this morning. Thank you all for your input. Will report to you this afternoon what the outcome of my call is. Hope everyone has a great day.. I feel wonderful today..
You are a hysteric,causing consternation and alarm where none is needed.
By what divine methodology have you ascertained that dperry should have no faith in his/her doctor based on a few words of text.
Like all self-opiniated shouters you have overlaid and displaced your own case history onto your 'response'.
There is nothing in the dperry posts to justify your unhelpful rant,which could easily undermine a perfectly good doctor/patient relationship.
My own response (which you obviously didn't bother to read) covered the 2 log drop question.
I am thinking now that since I feel so good today and yesterday that maybe my blood sugar was affecting my HGB.. is that Possible ? I am diabetic and not having an appetite at times its hard to eat when you don't want. I hate getting sick, and since the dental surgery, my gag reflexs are hard to keep in check sometimes. but have done well the last couple of days with eating, and got a good nights sleep again last nite. So since I am going on friday again for my CBC, should know more by tuesday, and if its continuing to drop he will call me about the Procrit. I already discussed that while in the office with him.
If after getting next result and it did drop and he does NOT call me , then I will reconsider finding another doctor maybe.
There are different types of anemia and there is an association with diabetes.
Whether haemolytic anemia,the kind caused by ribavirin is connected I do not know.
The value of information you can get from this forum is pretty well confined to HVC and any advice on other conditions is likely to be worthless or worse.
Everybody here is a patient (there is one doctor who posts occasionally)so you won't get advice on complex clinical issues.
If your doctor doesn't call you he's very naughty,but let's see!!
Many of the posters here just love their new doctor,hate the old one-it's caled the honeymoon period.
Don't change doctors unless you do not have confidence in him.
Nothing you have said about him so far seems particularly worrying,I don't understand why he's on trial-his response on the procrit is pretty mainstream.
Then I'm glad he's not my Dr. (Previous commetn about your dr being pretty mainstream) I went from 14 hemo to 10.1 and the dr didn't say lets wait till it drops a 1/10th and then I'll help you out. She siad, you are low enough, it takes the medicine a couple of weeks to work here's the script. At 10.3 there's not much difference than 10. Do what you feel comfortable with but don't take one good day as a sign you're going to feel better the rest of the week. Good luck
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I just wanted to share my experience with you, because it's somewhat similar and maybe it could help. My hgb went down to 10.2 around week 6 (I believe), but it was back up to 11.9 two weeks later. I felt a little tired, but I could still work and exercise, just not at quite the same intensity. The nurse suggested I eat red meat, so I did. Also, I made sure to go to the gym every day. I'm not sure if that's what helped or not but it stabilized on its own, without any rescue meds (since I'm in a clinical trial I'm not allowed to have any). Eat a steak! It's worth a shot.