Eithne01,
The treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has changed significantly since the late 1990s, with the development and subsequent approval by the Food and Drug Administration of imatinib (in 2001), the first of a class of medications called tyrosine kinase inhibitors, which target the specific abnormality that causes CML.
Before that time, patients were treated with other therapy, including interferon and bone marrow transplant, and had very poor outcomes.
Myelosuppression with neutropenia (decrease in neutrophils) and thrombocytopenia (decrease in platelet count) can be a side effect of treatment. Usually, discontinuation of drug intake is advised until the blood counts increase. You should have your white blood cell count repeated after 1-2 weeks and see if it already improves. You should report to your doctor if you experience any symptoms like fever.
I have been diagnosed with CML since Novmber of 2007. I am still a little confused about some things. and i guess when my WBC's got back to 4.5 I was excited and thought I was all good- In the clear huh... Well in less than a month my WBC's dropped back down to 1.8 and they say that I am good as long as I don't go past 1.5. Ok fine. I don't go back for another month and I already feel like **** and have had pneumonia 2x in the past month.
indolent chronic or stable phase, aggressive or advanced phase, and accelerated and blastic phase. The transition between phases may take years (on the average, 4 to 6 years from the stable phase to aggressive phase).
After diagnosis of CML, the patient can be given Imatinib (I'm not sure if this is the "miracle pill" you mentioned). Imatinib will not cause her to lose her hair.
Polycythemia vera is an acquired stem cell disorder caused by mutations in the JAK2 gene. It is difficult to predict the exact outcome of this disease in a particular. Average survival rates are generalizations, not applicable to a particular patient. The prognosis is relatively good. Newer techniques are being tried, including imatinib and stem cell transplantation.
All the best, and God Bless!
Its a lot but the gist of it will be if I say one thing they do another like when other ppl try and raise your children like if I say she's going to this doctor oh no she not she going her she has a scar from my hard birth don't touch her there why she not hurt
I'm a 42 female and had a GIST in my stomach that the surgeon removed along with a part of my stomach and also my gallbladder was removed almost 3 months ago. The GIST came back as non-cancerous. I just started experiencing moderate pain right under my right side under the last rib right where my gallbladder was. The pain comes and goes every 4 seconds and lasted for 4 hours. It started out earlier today with being sore around that area and then the pain started.
Since Friday Ai have noticed every time I eat no matter what it is I instantly start to feel pains in my stomach accompanied by nausea and this lasts for a good 3-4 hours and slowly starts to subside..Ai gist thought it could be a bug but being that's it's lasted almost 5 days now is quite unusual for a virus...Any other ladies have this happen?
I am a 34 year old male. About 3 months ago I noticed a lump in my left armpit, it was only noticeable to the touch, not visible. At that time, it was round, about the size of a nickle, and hard, but did not hurt. I ignored it because my family had been sick, and I figured swollen lymph node.
I also have dropped about 30 lbs without any significant effort in the last 6 months, not sure if this is related, but a data point.
I saw my PCP about 2 weeks ago.
For a week or so i had diarrheah. I had a tired and not well look. Eyes were swollen. In general i had pain in chest and throat. I had about 2 days where it wasn't painful. My eyes are a lil yellowish. Can get a lil fast heart beat and temp went up aobut 2 degrees. There were a couple of days that i had a sore throat (late at night early morning). The sides of my mymoth on the inside were a lil swollen. When i ate i bit the inside of my cheek.
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Hello, I could really use some advice about a problem I have had for 3-4 years with episodes of nausea and vomiting, often followed by a terrible headache as well as other symptoms.
Initially, I would be woken at random several hours into the night with sudden onset of vomiting undigested food. I would be violently ill with sweats, shaking, and ears ringing as if I was going to pass out. This would happen every 2-3 months or so. I also had some gnawing stomach pain.
Hello. I've been having very bad pain in my upper back. The pain reaches from just beneath my left shoulder blade to the top of my shoulder, and I've also felt some pains in my left arm, although that could be unrelated. I've been experiencing this about four years, and sometimes it's in my right shoulder blade. It will hurts for a couple of weeks and then be gone. I've had an x-ray done about three years ago and I went to physical therapy.
Since you had an MRI done, they would tell you if you have a TMJ issue. If you get a copy of the report it will be in there. You may need to sit on google and look up every second word to wade through the medical language though. Those things are not easy to read, although not impossible. You may not understand the nuiances but should be able to get the general gist.
You would also know from symptoms if you had a TMJ problem. Facial pain, grinding noises in the joints, that type of thing.
I’m 16 and I started my period the gist of the month was on it for maybe 4 or 5 days.. didn’t think anything of it. I stopped on the 5 day and wasnts bleeding for 4 days and then I started again and have been on it for 11 days now.
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