Kevie25

Close Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)

I was diagnosed with chronic myloid leukemia on 19 dec 2008.

Treatments

Gleevec Working / Worked

I generally feell ok, I havn't had any pains in my lower left hand side of my back where the bone marrows produced like I got before, the only thing I have is that sometimes my muscles ache, and my legs. I'm still taking this med.

Hydroxurea Working / Worked

I was admited into hospital on the 19/12/2008 where I was to be kept in over the weekend. I was given 16 capsules to take during the night and was on a IV drip and was told to drink loads of water. The next day was saturday and I had my blood taken to be tested, the doctor came and told me I could go home, and dropped the amount of capsules I was to take from 16 a day to 8 a day as my white blood count had come down by half over night. I was soo happy to be allowed home.