Marty your battles always uplift me. You are 70 years young to me. Only tasigna dropped my hemo low. Thanks for the info. ❤️❤️
Prayers & Blessings Jeanie 🐟🐟18,s Dx 1/2004 Started Gleevec 2/2004 Started Tasigna 9/2009 Started Sprycel 11/2009 Started Ponatinib January 2015 > On Jun 9, 2015, at 8:00 AM, Marty Gartenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Richard, Very good hemoglobin count! This tells me something. Your TKI is > going it's job and your kidneys are working well. It is your kidneys that > produce a hormone (can't remember the name of this hormone at the moment) > that goes to your bone marrow to help promote hemoglobin and red blood cell > production. > > I have been anemic for many years ever since my kidneys failed and had to get > either Procrit or Epogen injections about once a month as my hemoglobin > directed. My HGB was always in the range of in the upper 8's to just breaking > 10 for many years. Always tired and a lack of energy until I would get the > injection of Epogen during my dialysis treatments However the dialysis > treatments would usually knock the crap out of me so with or with out Procrit > I usually still felf very worn down, tired and a lack of energy > > Now that I had a kidney transplant along with a TURP procedure I can once > again be able to urinate like a fire hose putting out a fire in a ten story > building. Also my hemoglobin (HGB) has slowly been creeping up from an 8 to a > 12 as of yesterdays blood work, so my new kidney is working well with my > Creatinine level being at 1. Normal Creatnine is usually any ware from .3 to > 1.4 depending on the lab that did the test. > > Amazing, putting a 20 year old man's kidney into a now 71 year old man. I was > 70 at the time of my kidney transplant just three and a half months ago. I > guess good things come in small packages <03C.gif> > > 18's, > > Marty > > >> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Richard H <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hemoglobin is climbing without the shot now at 12.4. YEAH!!! The CML was >> just dropped to .03% as of last Tuesday. So all is well here. >> >> 18's >> >> Richard H. >> >> -- >> -- >> [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 >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CMLHope" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > [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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- [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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
