[Deborah Hodge]

My mother is 83 and has MDS. She has taken procrit since August and the Dr. raised her shot from 40 to 60 about 3 weeks ago. Her red blood count stayed up after getting 1 unit and increased for 2 weeks in a row. However, this week it had dropped from 9.1 to 7.2. We are bewildered at how and why it dropped so quickly. She has suffered terribly from the side effects of the higher dose, but was willing to suffer because her hemoglobin was going up. What in the world could have happened.

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