[Ulrika]

How low can neutrophils counts go?

by Ulrika on Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:14 am

Well today my husbands neutrophils count hit 0.... yesterday it was 0.1/ his white cell count is 0.9 (yesterday it was 0.5). He has been on neupogen injections for 5 days now... 4 of those days with a double dose!

None of the doctors know if this is normal or not before stem cell harvest to go right down to nothing... making me a bit nervous.

My husbands case is not what they have seen as he had a ruptured colon 2 days after the cytoxan and emergency surgery. I get the feeling the surgeons are still very concerned.

All I can find is that anything under 0.5 is severe neutropenia.... well we know he's in that range....

Hoping the numbers go up tomorrow!

[dnalex]

Re: How low can neutrophils counts go?

by dnalex on Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:29 pm

Best wishes!

[Ulrika]

Re: How low can neutrophils counts go?

by Ulrika on Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:35 pm

today we have so far got WBC... and that has gone from 0.9 up to 5.1 - still waiting on the neutrophil count but I suspect that would have gone up by now. I am feeling much more positive about it all today and husband is feeling much less tired and looks better!

[JimNY]

Re: How low can neutrophils counts go?

by JimNY on Mon Aug 26, 2013 8:00 am

Thanks, Ulrika, for updating us on your husband's situation. It's helpful to learn about these sorts of experiences -- you never know when the information could be useful.

I hope your husband continues to improve. Please keep us posted, not only on his progress, but also about what his doctors are doing to help him.

[Ulrika]

Re: How low can neutrophils counts go?

by Ulrika on Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:10 am

I will try get all of the official counts to record here but I can recall that today his White Blood Cell count was 25.1 and his neutrophils were 19 I think. extremely good. He is out of isolation and he had his stem cell harvest which went well - we find out in the morning if they got enough in the one day! Fingers crossed.

So after a few days of WCC and neutrophils going down to 0.... they shot up over night! He did have lots of bone pain that night which they said is a good sign, means the stem cells have increased to the point of going out of the marrow into the blood stream.