Hi Joyce. It looks like your liver counts are 1-10% common to increase on that drug. Read the information that comes with the meds. Read the whole document through. They will stabilize as well as other side effects. It seems I will go from one side effect to another as time passes. Fight on. 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 23, 2015, at 11:43 PM, Joyce Mesnarich <joy...@htc.net> wrote: > > Jeanie, > Thanks for your interest and suggestion. We have gone over all his other > meds with doctors and nothing should affect the liver. He doesn't take any > OVC pain meds, or any pain meds. And he does not drink alcohol. The primary > doctor says that the drug information for bosulif says it can cause liver > problems, but Dr Talpaz is less certain of that and he is the specialist. He > says he is watching it closely and I guess we will just trust him. Wayne is > getting blood tests every other week locally and they are sent to Dr Talpaz. > The liver enzyme levels seem to have stabilized, although they are elevated. > As you say, faith and pills. One of Wayne's mottos is "Better living through > chemistry". LOL I think that used to be part of a TV ad for a large > chemical company, maybe Du Pont or Monsanto. > > Joyce in IL > > >> On Jul 23, 2015, at 11:32 AM, 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope wrote: >> >> 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? 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