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Is anyone taking Ibrutinib (Imbruvica)?

Posted by myla031 @myla031, Mar 16, 2021

Was diagnosed with marginal zone lymphoma and I was treated with Rituximab with minimal response. Doctor adviced me to take Ibrutinib.

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cll2020 | @cll2020 | Jun 21 12:01pm
In reply to @loribmt "Welcome to Connect, @cll2020. Thank you for sharing your journey with CLL. It’s positive stories like..." + (show)
@loribmt

Welcome to Connect, @cll2020. Thank you for sharing your journey with CLL. It’s positive stories like yours that can be so encouraging to any newbies out there recently diagnosed with CLL. It’s also great to hear that you were able to reduced your dosage of imbruvica! What are the side effects you’ve experienced?

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Side effects are minimal and include fatigue, dry skin (my palms itch like crazy at times so I put on some hand cream and that helps) I bruise more easily than before but nothing drastic, I do bleed longer but again nothing that I can't manage, and it seems that it takes longer to heal. Like I said I am one of the lucky CLL patients and what I complain about is trival compared to others that have serious side effects.

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