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  • #30626
    Caryn George
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    Hello everyone…I am sorry for all who have MDS and for their loved ones as well. My father is 82 years old and has been getting shots at Kaiser to try to stabilize his situation. After 2 years, his count has now dropped to 7.5 and they are doing a transfusion for the first time today. Can anyone tell me what he can expect? If the transfusion works, does he start feeling better pretty quickly or is that too vague a question with too many variables? Any enlightenment would be appreciated.

    #30628
    narfkralc
    Participant

    hello
    I have MDS and have been getting transfusions every two weeks for 7 years. Never had a problem. Usually feel better after a day or so. However, I am only 66 with no other health problems.

    I hope all goes well

    #30683
    tj00kayak
    Participant

    My wife was recently released from the Anschutz Medical Center, Denver after 19-days with MDS and with a hemoglobin count of 7.9. She was a bit of a zombie for a couple days until her Dr. saw the results and called. She went in for three units to our local hospital and has been pretty darn good ever since with a vastly improved hemoglobin count. It took maybe 2-3 days to ramp back up to “feeling good” after the transfusion.

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    #30724
    lucyls lucyls
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    mistake, like countless others that scientists have made over the centuries, was a fortunate one, as it spurred him on, and he continued unhindered with his idiosyncratic
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    turn over the guinea pigs, and inject the urine into their abdominal cavities. It
    takes little to imagine him moving assuredly and with celerity from jar of urine to syringe to animal.
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    One by one, regardless of the diagnosis of the patient, the guinea pigs perished. And, practising what he’d done all his professional life, and what any respectable doctor
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    John was well aware that what he was doing was remarkably crude. So, at first, he kept quiet about his work, telling only a select few who needed to know.
    Today, no one would consider whipping out, buying dozens of jars, filling them with the urine of patients and then injecting the urine into guinea pigs. It sounds archaic and
    primitive, and it was an era of experimental crudity that was coming to an end.

    #30730
    jenny kayal
    Member

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    #30737
    bobderek
    Blocked

    Is no one monitoring these forums. It’s bad enough there are so few responses. The best place to go for discussion and recent information is actually Marrow Forums http://www.marrowforums.org

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