[CMLHope] Ponotinib

2015-07-24 Thread John Barrons
Hi Jeanie: My next blood test will be on Aug 5, one month after my last one. I will have been on one tablet per two week period, so I haven't had a blood test for a month. Will see how that works. Looks like you are doing OK Sent from my iPad -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.

Re: [CMLHope] Ponotinib

2015-07-24 Thread 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope
Hi John and good to hear from you. Hope your blood stays good. I don't have to go back until sept 3rd. I don't like waiting that long for blood test so I will get my PCD to do a blood test next week. I still take 1 pill daily. My Motto: Faith and Pills Jeanie 🐟🐟18,s Dx 1/2004. CML Leukemia

Re: [CMLHope] New results

2015-07-24 Thread 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope
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

Re: [CMLHope] New results

2015-07-24 Thread 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope
Just wanted to say that I take OTC pain killers and have tried prescription ones. I have a right side pain that won't go away and they can't find out what it is. Nothing seems to help the pain. They are doing a ct scan in Sept to see if they can find it but they have already done that with no

Re: [CMLHope] New results

2015-07-24 Thread Kate
I was diagnosed in jan 2015 and put on tasigna, my numbers are great as was the last bone marrow test. The ph chromosome was almost undectable! Yes I know all of this great news and I am glad, however the 'rash' side effect has me a virtual prisoner! My face, neck chest hands and feet are a mess.

[CMLHope] Skip

2015-07-24 Thread Suzieq
Was just wondering if anyone has heard from Skip in a while? I know I haven't been very faithful here lately and may have missed any reports about him or posts from him. The reason I am asking, I've met a woman who is a 20 or 22 year survivor with CML and apparently none of the TKI's worked

Re: [CMLHope] Skip

2015-07-24 Thread Joyce Mesnarich
I don't always post, but I check the messages pretty much everyday and have not seen anything from Skip. I was thinking about him, too, and wondering why we have not heard anything from him. Skip, we are missing you. Joyce in IL On Jul 24, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Suzieq wrote: > Was just wo

Re: [CMLHope] Skip

2015-07-24 Thread Marty Gartenberg
Hi Suzieq, I also haven't heard from Skip. I tried contacting him trough skype but nothing yet. I will keep tiring. 18's Marty On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Suzieq wrote: > Was just wondering if anyone has heard from Skip in a while? I know I > haven't been very faithful here lately and

Re: [CMLHope] New results

2015-07-24 Thread Peter
Almost undetectable after only 8 months - that's wonderful! I would gladly put up with the rash if I had those those results. I got the Tasigna rash about one year after starting Tasigna. The dermatologist was clueless ("I dunno, must be the medication"). Anyways, those nasty pimples wandered in

Re: [CMLHope] New results

2015-07-24 Thread 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope
Hi Kate and welcome. Rash is a bad side effect. Glad you are doing so good on tasigna. I didn't. Dropped my counts too low and quit working for me but many patients do good on it. This rash will go away hopefully soon. Use creams until you find one that helps. Good luck. My Motto: Faith

Re: [CMLHope] Skip

2015-07-24 Thread 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope
Good luck susieq. I haven't heard from Skip. 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 24, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Suzieq wrote: >

Re: [CMLHope] New results

2015-07-24 Thread Joyce Mesnarich
Jeanie, I know you have been dealing with that pain for a long time. Medicine has come so far and yet the Good Lord holds some secrets from us. I hope in Sept they will get a clue as to the pain's cause. Joyce in IL On Jul 24, 2015, at 11:20 AM, 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope wrote: > J

Re: [CMLHope] New results

2015-07-24 Thread bkbarney via CMLHope
Hi Joyce, I am so glad that your husband's CML numbers are going in the right direction. The cml journey is often a balancing act, between the right dosage and side effects...Maybe your husband could be on 150 of busutinif with time??? It seems that 200 put him close to remission. I had to go of

Re: [CMLHope] New results

2015-07-24 Thread bkbarney via CMLHope
Peter, I too had the tasigna rash, severe at three quarters of the standard doseage. My eye brows fell out and half my hair as well..lowering the doseage helped the severity of the rash..but in the end, my liver didn't like the drugI know many people that do really well on the drug, and hav

Re: [CMLHope] Digest for cml...@googlegroups.com - 2 updates in 1 topic

2015-07-24 Thread Richard H
A-okay. Working with my ONC is what I have been doing since Feb. 2002. This is a second round for me. At 5 1/2 years I been through this on 400mg Gleevec for 6 months.. This time from Nov. 2014 I am on 300mg Gleevec. I have been on and off Iron pills 65mg and also Procrit. I get my medicine