Actually, according to the literature, Gleevec is out of your system
(i.e. no trace in urine, feces, or blood) in about 7 to 10 days.
However, the side effects take much longer to go away. In the case of
edema, some say it is due to leaky capillaries, when fluid leaks out of
the capillary into th
Please read the following: http://experts.about.com/e/i/im/Imatinib.htm
You'll see that the half-life of Gleevec is 18 hours and its metabolite
40 hours. That means that most of it will be out of your system on a
matter of days. It may take one's system a long time to adjust to
being off of Gle
I have not really looked into this much, but I was going to say I found it hard to believe a medication such as Gleevec would be out of your system in days. Thanks for the info,
Terry
On 8/21/06, Trey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Any medication that is taken for a period of time will be out of the
Any medication that is taken for a period of time will be out of the
main blood system within days (what the pharmacist means), but can
persist in very small amounts in the soft tissues for considerably
longer, because it has become embedded in them over time. Since the
blood system carries off t
I guess my pharmicist was wrong
Hugs,
Katy
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-- Original message -- From: DAWN RODEGHIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I was taken off of Gleevec for 10 days on two separate occasions when they were trying to draw stem cells from me when I first got into
patients that is
suseptable to side effects.
Lisa
Adelaide, Australia
>From: DAWN RODEGHIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: CMLHope@googlegroups.com
>To: CMLHope@googlegroups.com
>Subject: [CMLHope] Re: Gleevec is out of your system in four
>days?
>Date: Sun, 2
I was taken off of Gleevec for 10 days on two separate occasions when they were trying to draw stem cells from me when I first got into remission. They told me at that time people have been off of it for much longer times than that and it was still present in their system. Jim Rodeghier educato
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