Be careful with his diet. Ovc pain pills hurt the liver as well as other drugs we take. Ask your pharmacy if any other drugs he take are hurting his liver. It's hard but maybe they can figure out something. Good luck.
My Motto: Faith and Pills Jeanie 🐟🐟18,s Dx 1/2004. CML Leukemia Started Gleevec 2/2004 Started Tasigna 9/2009 Started Sprycel 11/2009 Started Ponatinib January 2015 Dr Balducci Moffitt Cancer Center > On Jul 22, 2015, at 2:01 PM, lrc lrc <kneesrb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Joyce does he drink alcohol? > >> On Jul 22, 2015 1:43 PM, "margood18 via CMLHope" <cmlhope@googlegroups.com> >> wrote: >> Joyce, so glad to hear that your husband's PCR is lower and I hope that his >> liver function will steady. Best wishes to both of you. >> >> Marcie >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Joyce Mesnarich <joy...@htc.net> >> To: cmlhope <cmlhope@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 12:16 pm >> Subject: [CMLHope] New results >> >> Hello everyone. I have not had time to contribute for awhile. But I must >> let >> you all know the results of my husband's PCR at his last visit to Dr Talpaz. >> He >> was taken off Sprycel due to pleural effusion and we were hoping his >> undetectable would hold....but it did not. He was subsequently put on >> bosulif >> and not showing much improvement after 3 months. So his dosage was changed >> from >> 100 mg to 200 mg. And now, after 3 more months, his PCR went from 8.7 to >> 0.127!! Hopefully in another 3 months he will once again reach >> undetectable. >> >> The downside of his test results is that the liver function >> tests have increased a lot. The doctor will not really say that bosulif is >> to >> blame, but nothing else has changed. Has anyone of you CML warriors had any >> problems with the liver while on TKI's? Was there any treatment to help the >> liver? >> >> God bless you all. >> >> Joyce in IL >> >> >> -- >> -- >> >> [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. >> -- >> -- >> [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. > > -- > -- > [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. -- -- [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.