Baileys anemia was non regenerative and epogen and prednisolone kick
started his red cell production and he did fine for almost 6 months, he
passed from undiagnosed pancreatic cancer but his HCT when he passed was
still at 33%. He started the epo when his HCT was at 18%, it dropped to
15% (this is normal for it to drop for 2 to 3 weeks), then started going
up, when it got to 40% we started dosing once a week instead of 3 times
a week and he did fine for almost 6 months. You have to keep an eye on
blood pressure as epogen can raise it.
Most Drs. freak out when it continues to drop thinking they are having
an antibody reaction, that is not the case, sometimes it takes 2 to 3
weeks to start working and sometimes the dose isn't high enough.
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