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Transplant anti-rejection medications. What's your advice?
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@contentandwell
I did know that some people switch meds so your experience with creatinine gives me helpful insight into this. I guess everyone tolerates meds differently. I take tacrolimus but I have heard that sirolimus has a lower rate of cancer. Have you heard this?
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Yes, my husband takes 3mg’s tac, heart transplant 2013. Couple years out he began getting squamous cells head face & neck, arms. He has had 8 mohs procedures & more freezing than we can count. He tried sirolimus for this reason but could not make transition. His skin is very thin & bleeds a lot. Still on prednisone. Needed to build up on sirolimus before dropping Tac, bleeding became dangerous. He is on a 6 week cycle with dermatologist. He has started getting lesions near his eyes, so now has an eye doctor on board who lasers those.
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@jolinda I had not heard that. I trust my transplant surgeon fully, maybe too fully, because I don't tend to research things as much as I usually have with other doctors. In my opinion, he is absolutely the greatest, and I tend to be a bit of a cynic when it comes to doctors.
Now I am going to have to research that when I have more time.
JK