Posted by lucie lu on October 27, 2008, at 18:45:50
In reply to Re: Low white blood cell counts due to meds? » lucie lu, posted by Nadezda on October 27, 2008, at 18:32:06
> In my case I had to stop the parnate immediately, but I had reached an extremely low level, and I"m not sure what my pdoc would have done earlier. My white blood cell counts went back to normal within a couple of weeks after stopping the parnate, so it was a convincing demonstration of the connection.
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> How low are yours?Hi Nazedha,
The two readings were 3.7 and 3.2 (x10 3 u/L, the usual units), taken in August and a week or so ago. It looks to be decreasing but admittedly there are only two points so I wouldn't be confident about the trend yet. How low were yours?
I haven't noticed any signs of low immune activity, just got my flu shot. My younger daughter is sick with a bad cold right now, maybe that will be an indicator (although maybe what it indicates is that my hand-washing methods need improvement). Did you experience any symptoms or just the leukopenia?
And since I assume you were on the parnate for a good reason, how did you handle going off it quickly and what did you substitute to control the symptoms the parnate was addressing?
Thanks for sharing this history with me.
Lucie
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