Hi Jeanie, Life is a complicated process.
Having hemoglobin counts under 8 is a "hard rock" to chew on. I know because my usual hemoglobin counts are usually under 10 but since my kidneys no longer produce the hormone that goes into the bone marrow to help produce my hemoglobin my doctors give me a shot of either Procrit or Epogen (usually epogen because it costs less but still does the job it is designed for) to help my hemoglobin rise. With those shots my counts get up to eleven or so and last a couple of months. However your hemoglobin level has to be monitored because to much epogen/procrit can cause a stroke. In my case it may be different because my kidneys are what is causing this problem and as soon as I receive a kidney transplant the kidney should hopefully take care of this problem and relieve me of any further procrit or epogen. Until then I must live on a complicated sky walking wire. If I were to get any blood transfusions then my antigens may become more then zero which they are now in spite of having 96 blood transfusions during and right after my bone marrow transplant which was more then 25 years ago, which is not the best result for a kidney transplant. However all of my doctors are amazed as to why I am still zero antigen level with all of my previous blood, platelet, and globulin transfusions/infusions Sometimes things may come back to bite me in the Azz, but hey, at least I got these 25 years so far. This seems to avoid any blood transfusions, but everyone is different so why don't you ask your onc about this? (a regimen of either procrit or epogen) I mean how much have I learned by going through all of this? And how much more will I be able to learn by going through a kidney transplant? I hope a lot more for a long time. 18's Jeanie and everyone else, you just keep on keeping on things will get better. I love all of you! [?] Marty -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to CMLHope@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cmlhope-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cmlhope+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
