Postby boxhill » Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:50 am
I doubt that it is anything to be worried about, but when you have a followup visit with your PCP, ask him or her what you can do to bring it up. If you don't have a visit scheduled, just call and ask him/her. Having low red blood cell count tends to sap your energy. I remember being seriously anemic a decade ago and I'd pant climbing a flight of stairs because there weren't enough red blood cells to carry oxygen. To some extent it just takes time, but you can help it along. Eat some rare steak a few times per week.
If you are going to have chemo, you definitely want to bring it up as much as you can before you start.
F, 64 at DX CRC Stage IV
3/17/18 blockage, r hemicolectomy
11 of 25 nodes,5 of 5 mesentery nodes
0.5 cm sub-capsular liver met removed
pT3 pN2b pM1
BRAF wild, KRAS G12D
dMMR, MSI-H
5/4/18 FOLFOX
Neulasta 6/28/18
7/9/18 CT no masses or enlarged nodes, 2mm indeterminate lung nodule
11/20/18 CT same, Lung nodule likely calcified granuloma. Enlarged spleen.
12/20/18 Liver MRI 5mm liver met and 2 lymph nodes in porta hepatis, CT review shows progression of nodes on FOLFOX
12/31/18 Keytruda