Hi Kelly, I am on 70mg of Sprycel instead of 100mg due to low neutrophil/white blood cell count and major side effects (like constant mouth sores and severe constipation). I see Dr Cortes at MD Anderson and he is very comfortable treating patients at lower doses if necessary and sees no problem with me being on only 70mg of Sprycel. My local onc would rather I have tried TAsigna or Gleevec before lowering Sprycel, but Dr Cortes thought lowering the drug that achieved a cytogenic result would be the smarter move, so that's what we did. Talk about night and day...I really would have thought I was taking a totally different drug...there are still side effects and my counts still hover pretty low, but not dangerously low and I'm not taking 8 other medications for constant side effects. I'm just dealing with them.
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