Hi Allyson, If I remember correctly, you are on 800mg of Gleevec and one weekly injection of peg interferon. According to the latest data from the dasatinib trials and the opinion of some CML experts, the side effects of the 800mg of IM alone would cause the problems you are metnioning as far as digestive problems, and memory issues. These might not be specifically linked to IFN. In fact I know one patient who is on 800 mg of IM as part of a trial and she has significant GI problems and memory issues and she never took IFN. It just may be in your case, the doctors are prepared to drop the IFN to stay with IM because it has better longer term results? I think this is the fundamental problem with the trial at MD Anderson. Having people take 800mg of IM and IFN can get quite debilitating. Especially in your case, if I remember correctly you got into this trial just after being dxed. The point with IFN is that it is supposed to stimulate an immune response, overdosing either IM or IFN seems to greatly diminish our QOL without the potential to cure us. You are very brave for doing this though. Hopefully, we have all learned something from this.
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