Fumaderm and hormone injections

[Fred]

11April 2014

Just been to hospital had long chat with the dermatologist, she assured me my low blood count had nothing to do with my radiotherapy treatment, as the area treated was unlikely to have an effect on my bloods it was decided to reduce my my tablets to 2x 120mg tablets in morning and one 120 mg tablet in the evening. Cutting the dose by 25%
With my lymphocytes being just 0.76 this month a drop from 0.85 last month. She was fearful of it falling to critical levels, [normal is between 1 and 3]
So we will run with the reduced level for a month monitoring my blood after a couple of weeks to see what's happening, hopefully they will begin to rise again, and my psoriasis won't flare up

Obviously your dermatologist knows more, but I have just read that chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and some types of cancers among other things can cause it. But like they said it's probably not the reason due to the area treated, though reading that it could be.

As for reducing your dose of Fumaderm, that can only be a good thing as in the end the less you take of anything the better. Yes you may get a slight flare-up, but that could be down to you thinking it will get worse. Your Psoriasis score is at 2 at the moment which is probably the lowest of any member here, and even if it went up to say 6 as mine is at the moment it wouldn't be that bad as I also have PsA. So a little bit more psoriasis to me far out ways more pills, but whatever thanks for updating Jim and don't think to much about a flare-up just go with the flow and see what happens. They are keeping a good eye on you.