Your drs. should have been monitoring your cyclosporine levels that whole time and probably were and you were unaware of their doing so. From what I understand, the cyclosporine dosage is different for everyone depending on how quickly your body metabolizes it in your liver. Your liver may have been metabolizing it quicker than that other man, therefore causing you to have to take a higher dosage in order to maintain the right amount of it in your system to get the treatment to work. He may have also had more side effects, causing his drs. to decide to lower his dosage. It's a tricky little thing. 
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Angie
36 yr. old, dx SAA in Jan 1996, treated with ATG in Mar. 1996, off cyclosporine Sept. 1996, last blood transfusion in Aug. 1997, slow decline in counts again November 2010, AA and current count decline thought to be caused by lupus, currently taking 400mg Plaquinil
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