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mrtmeo
09-07-2014, 07:16 AM
I am wondering how the blood work changes as the antibodies go away.
While my mom was getting rituxan treatments, her lymphocytes went to almost zero.
Then, they gradually came back up to the normal range and have quickly dropped again.

Her neutrophils dropped way down after this 2nd lymphocyte drop and went back up to above normal.

Is this normal?

mrtmeo
09-11-2014, 02:26 AM
I asked my mom's Nephrologist if my understanding of how Rtx stops the disease and he said I was correct.
I said that first the Lymphocytes bottom out to kill the immature b cells and then it rises and then falls again to kill off the mature b cells.
Meanwhile the Neutrophils bottom out and come back until the hijacked ones die off.
However, I am wondering if the Neutrophils do this bottom out 2 times to remove immature and mature hijacked cells?