So about 2 months ago I've been diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma stage 3 with spleen involvment ( IPS 2, male, leukocytosis)and I've already had 4 treatments of abvd (2 cycles) and the internim pet is coming and i've got a couple of questions.
I think I'm going nuts, before treatments I was afraid of the side effects and now I'm going insane because I didn't have any side effects at all besides a bit of hair loss (I still have alot of hair), I don't feel tired or weak and have no nausea or vomiting (that makes sense because im getting anti-nausea drugs), I didn't get neutropenic even once.
my WBC is about 5.2 - 5.6 10*3/micl 10 days after treatment
Neutrophils are about 1.95 - 2.26 10*3/micl
and I had a blood count today and my platelets and RBC came back higher than when I wasn't sick
platelets - 455 10*3/micl
RBC - 5.44 10*6/micl
And I had an excisional biopsy of a lymph node in my neck and now when i feel the area and the surrounding area it feels weird and hard, is that scar tissue? is that normal? and what worries my the most before the pet scan is that i still have lump in the right supraclavicular area (near where the biopsy was taken) but now it feels a bit soft, my doctor thinks that it might be fluids from the biopsy, did anyone have that?
Is that normal to feel like the during chemo or have those kind of wbc stats during chemo, I thought that I was supposed to have low neutrophils not normal is it possible that it means that my hodgkins is refractory?
