Guest guest Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 Hi Having your WBC go lower than normal is totally normal. It means the Gleevec is working! Especially knowing that you are fairly newly diagnosed, this is actually to be expected. The Gleevec is killing off all those bad cells and the new, healthy cells take a little while to re-populate, hence the low counts. It's very possible that your counts will remain low or on the low side and this too is usually nothing to be concerned about. Your white count isn't as important to look at is your Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC). As long as your ANC stays above 1 (or 1000, depending on how your lab reports it), then you're perfectly fine. I've been on Gleevec for 5 years now and my WBC is often in the 3 range. Last September it went as low as 2.5 but my ANC varies between 1 and 2 so I don't worry about it. Hope this helps, Take care, Tracey > > Hello, > > I had a CBC Friday and my WBC was now low, 3k. I was really shocked as I > was diagnosed just a month ago and was at 544k and one week ago it was 19k. > Has anyone else had an issue with the WBC getting real low like that? My red > count is still just a bit low and platelets are great. Anyhow, my oncologist > had cut me back to one CBC per week, and now I will be back Monday to double > check things. > > Chris > > > > ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. > Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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