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Reviewer: Buckeye6165, 75 or over on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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Diagnosed in 2/17 with MDS. On Vidaza for over two years! Over 240 injections in the stomach...24 injections for nausea in the hand and over 100 blood tests with no ill effects! Caught twice with my platelets down and needed a transfusion! Everyone is different...feeling fine at 75!
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Reviewer: queenie73722, 35-44 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I tried this medication while it was going through the clinical trials. There was 31 of us on the trial. My bone marrow function went from 50% to 20% with one cycle. I was removed from the trial and send start to having a stem cell transplant. I thought I was going to die taking this medication. I have had 2 stem cell tranplants to date and I have been in remission for 7 yrs now.
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Reviewer: Julian, 65-74 Male on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I had low blood counts: WBC and ANC; RBC and hemoglobin, and platelets. Mild nausea after first dose of first cycle. I have only had one cycle and the drug is not producing results yet.
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Reviewer: 75 or over Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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only slight nausea
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Reviewer: smg5292yahoo.com, 65-74 Male on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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This drug caused me to develop eosophilic pneumonia which, after only two treatments of Vidaza, almost killed me. It took a huge team of doctors (pulmonologists, cardiologoists and the whole hematologists) to bring me back to some semblance of normalcy. They took me off all MDS meds for three years. I've been okay for three years but now because blood levels have dropped due to a virus, the
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