A couple years ago my husbands gleevec stopped working and they increased his dosage to 800 mg a day and that brought everything in check the last couple years. Before you quit using Gleevec you can talk to your Dr. about increasing the dosage. I also heard that the fish tests can vary up and down and they take several and even them out.
On Nov 13, 9:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I wonder how reliable are the blood test we take? > I have had two FISH done recently. > One came back and said no phillies out of 200 cells studied and the other > came back with 160 phillies out of 200 studied. > Now, which one will the dr rely on? > I've been having a high platelet count as of late and am wondering if the > Gleevec isn't doing the job it should be doing, and what I should be thinking > > about changing to if it isn't? > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. > Blessings, > Jeanie<3 > > ************************************** See what's new athttp://www.aol.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
