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I am battling with low WBC, values below 1 (currently 0,5), and it seams to be a returning issue after chemo last summer. What to do?

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What are your absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) and (ANC) absolute neutrophil counts?

What does your CLL doctor advise?

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I only have Info of WBC and the doc seems like she want the time to do the trick, but it has been over a year now.

Currently after my last infection I was put on zarzio injections, but i am having a lot of sideeffects and doubting on the long term effect.

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Zarzio is a generic G-CSF to boost neutrophils. You might request a change to another drug like Neupogen or Granocyte You may find it better...

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Hi I toohad problems with my blood counts after chemo. Although I was give various different anti biotics to ward off infection these actually made me feel worse. In the end it was just time which helped. Good luck

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