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    • February 21, 2017 at 12:40 am
    stevenallenschwartz
    Participant

      Had my 4th infusion today. Almost postponed due to higher liver enzymes than normal. So far no reaction. Scheduled for my 5th infusion in 3 weeks than the petscan to determine the efficacy. Taming my fear by staying active.

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        • February 21, 2017 at 1:58 am
        Mark_DC
        Participant

          Steven, how high were your liver enzymes? I am stuck at four infusions because my liver enzymes shot up, brought them back down with prednisone, but now off prednisone and the liver enzymes are up a little, so no treatment for me. I hope my doctor is not being too cautious, on the other hand side effects Can be serious. Good luck, hope this will work, mark

            • February 22, 2017 at 10:45 pm
            stevenallenschwartz
            Participant

              Sorry I can't tell you. The tech said that I was in the high normal range but she needed to check with onc because I was below normal margin prior.

            • February 21, 2017 at 8:01 am
            Patrisa
            Participant

              Dear Steven,

              don´t think if you don´t have any reactions, that keytruda is not doing it˙s job… My father had NONE and at his first scan after 3 months he was almost NED…. But we saw improvement on his sub mel (which was quite large) that he had a response…

              Tame your fear, even if keytruda fails (which it wont), you have more options….

               

              Take care,

               

              Patrisa

                • February 22, 2017 at 10:49 pm
                stevenallenschwartz
                Participant

                  Thanks for the the positive spin… I need to remember that I am lucky they have protocols to deal with stage 4….

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