God bless Fran / steroids and IgE

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Fran, thank you for this great explanation/clarification and for

providing the link. I am sure this will help folks make their own

risk/benefit assessments with more confidence.

For all of you, Fran has appropriately questioned my earlier post

about pred lowering or masking IgE, citing several studies in which

it was shown to raise IgE. The last time I got my own IgE level

taken I was on pred and asked my doc about the possibility of it

masking my IgE and me getting a lower score and getting renewed at a

lower dose of Xolair incorrectly. He said that it wouldn't affect me

too much and that even if it did mask some of my IgE, I make so much

of it anyway that it wouldn't bring my score down to the point of

affecting my doseage. Also, pred masking IgE has been going around

the webMd board for a while.

I

> > have been on Xolair since September 2003. Two shots every two

weeks.

> > > After all those shots, not ONE reaction. Nada, Zip an Zilch! I

> > can't

> > > even tell where the injection was given 5 minutes later.

> > >

> > > I cant count how many of my regular allergy shots hurt swolen

up

> > > around the injection site. Xolair never has.

> > >

> > > I sure am glad I am not in that very small 0.1%

> > >

> > > Doug

> > > Group Founder

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