Re: Low plattet questions


"J W" <jonboy42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello listmates,
I have a puzzling question about low plattlet counts. I'm stage 4 colom
cancer, debulking surgery done on 12/23/05 and have been on continuos
chemo since January 06 every two weeks. I'm getting 5Fu, leucovorin,
oxilaplatin and had avastin added about three months ago.

For quite some time I've had some minor issues with low plattlets. On
chemo week the chemo would knock them down to 70s-80s but by the next
week they'd be back up to low 100s. I have been off chemo now for a
month due to a minor surgery for an abcess so you'd think my numbers
would be fine since I haven't had chemo in a while but when they checked
me the plattlets were 74, next day they drooped to 66. They gave me a
shot of neummega to boost them but that only brought them up to 71 and
the neumega knocks me out completely, I go straight to bed when I get
home from doc's office. They are saying to take the neumega for 3-4 days
then if all is well take the chemo which will just knock them right back
down and I'll be in a never ending cycle with this neumga. What worries
me is why have they dropped so much when I'm not on chemo. All my other
numbers were within acceptible range. I had some problems with very high
liver numbers but turns out that was a chemo toxicity issue because
after my month of chemo break and a week or so of milk thistle the liver
numbers were all back to normal. I've had to have one shot of the white
blood cell booster a couple of months ago but they have been acceptible
since then.

I really don't want to get in a vicious circle with the chemo and the
blood booster drugs and having to drive 50 miles round trip daily to
doctors for neumega i between chemos. I wonder if maybe taking some mre
time off chemo would be adviseable to allow things to stablize. My CEA
had grown from 2.5 to 12 in a two month period but once the avastin was
added it dropped to 5.9 after only a few doses, during my month off
chemo it rose back to 6.7 which is not good but slower than the first
rise. I wonder if I could safely take a little more time off. Opinions?





You marrow is getting tired


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