Platelets dropped!

Hi Ian L c2e27 

I have no experience of this, but just wanted to say that the radiotherapy is the main part of the treatment so if your chemo has to be stopped im sure you will be ok. I only had a reduced dose of chemo as I had low DPD and im fine. Sending hugs. Xx

Hi Ian,                                                                             I have no experience of this either but sorry to hear this has happened and really hope that you got a plan in place today. 

As Bungle1 said, the radiotherapy is the main part of the treatment so everything crossed that it doesn’t impact too much. 
xx

Hi Ian

Again no experience of this, but chemo stopped for a few people I was receiving treatment with.

Just to repeat what has been said, sqamous responds very well to radiotherapy. The chemo drugs have been tweaked over the last 50 years, but the radiotherapy is so effective for many, so no change.

Wishing you the very best for the rest of your treatment.

Ally xx

Hello there,

Just to let you know that this happened to me and I had to stop my chemo tablets until my following blood test and then I was fine to resume them. My end result was an all-clear so please don’t worry about this.

All the very best. Xxx

Again no personal experience of this Ian L c2e27 but quite a few people that have come through the group in my time here have had to stop the chemo side of treatment for various reasons & have still had a complete response. From what I understand if it’s capecitabine that you’re taking daily this is a cell division inhibitor designed to hold things stable whilst the radiotherapy does its thing. Hopefully it’s as you suspect & is a false reading.

Nicola 

Hello Ian L c2e27 

I am sorry that this has happened.  I was alright taking capecitabine, however, when I had systemic chemo prior to the chemo/radiotherapy my liver levels were high and I had to miss a week.  However the next week I was fine and chemo could continue.  It isn't the same thing as what you have but I am telling you to illustrate that things do change from week to week.

But if not please be reassured by the others who who had the same thing happen and stopped chemo completely for the remainder of the treatment and had good results.

Hoping the rest of your treatment goes without a hitch.

Irene xx

Hi thanks for advice everyone.

The platelets are still clumped and showing a low reading but I pished them to speak to haematology and as I suspected and as i had told the DRthe DR they think its a false reading and a immune response so I've restarted the tablets x

Hi Ian,

Thats good and hopefully as you say, a false reading. 
Good luck with the rest of your treatment and other than the bloods hope all going as well as possible. Xx

That's great news Ian.

Ally xx