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Nivo May be weakening immune system in skin

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    • July 21, 2018 at 4:57 pm
    MovingOn
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      Hi, hoping the best for everyone in this melanoma fight.

      I’ve had two Nivo (Opdivo) infusions at the 4 week interval (third infusion will be Wednesday). It seems like every little skin scratch that I get is becoming infected (then antibiotic ointment helps). I must have 5 infected scratches at any time (e.g. mosquito bites get infected, small pimples get infected instead of their typical pattern of resolving within days). The thing which concerns me is that the infections are causing my lymph nodes to swell (then they shrink again within 4 days). I’ll see my melanoma specialist on Wednesday and she already knows what I’m experiencing. So I wanted to ask if anyone else on Nivo has had a similar experience?

      I was on Keytruda for 5 months previously and didn’t have this experience, but it also could be something happening in me and not a different effect between Keytruda and Opdivo.

       

      All the best,

      Danny

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        • July 21, 2018 at 6:15 pm
        MovingOn
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          Also wanted to mention that I’m having my routine CT scans next Saturday so if I have swollen lymph nodes then (I have some now but these may recede by next Saturday, I hope) I‘ll see what the scan results say about them.

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