Congratulations to your wife on her 10 years with CML........I have had two different places of "itch" while being on Gleevec. The first one was a small place on the left side of the neck right under my chin.....there was a slight redness there about an inch wide and maybe two inches long that would slightly itch and almost took on the look of a burn that was healing. The nurse practitioner I saw when I went for my CML check-up didn't think it had anything to do with the Gleevec (but I did). It went away & now I have this "itch" of the skin right around the waistline of a bikini (if I wore one, smile) on my right side.....but no redness or rash....just an itch. I use some Cortizone cream or Gold Bond powder and that seems to help. The itch isn't constand, but worrisome at times. I forgot this, after I began taking Gleevec four years ago, I did have a very mild rash & light itch on the upper chest area right below the neck line or collar of shirts. It finally went away within three or four months. I'm thankful to say that I never had any of the ugly rashes that some people did get from Gleevec or any of the eye problems I read about here in our support group.
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