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Bill,
Yes, find out which animal you got the first time and stick with it. No point in exhausting all of your options too soon. Are you doing the ATG here in HI or in CA? If it's local, you could suggest your doctor call Dr. Miller at Kaiser and find out where he got the info about the 10 day course of treatment.
They let Ken go home the day after his last infusion, which was not a moment too soon for him, let me tell you! He had his clothes back on and was sitting on the bed waiting as soon as they unhooked the IV, LOL. He was back working on the farm the next day too, which was certainly NOT how it went the first time around. The lower doses of both cyclo and prednisone the second time made it so much easier on him! We learned a lot from his first treatment. If you can get your doctor's records from your first course, your current doc should be able to gauge your responses to that and adjust the dosage appropriately if need be.
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-Lisa, husband Ken age 60 dx SAA 7/04, dx hypo MDS 1/06 w/finding of trisomy 8; 2 ATGs, partial remission, still using cyclosporine
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