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Hi Pam and Irene I just wanted to be sure that you and others know that there is a side effect of arikayce that can affect the kidneys and I had that and my creatinine went up to 1.53 —too high! I had to go off of arikayce. Bad because I thought that it was helping me and that was a good thing that’s about the only thing that’s affected adversely so far in my journey with Mac and obsesses. I just want to be sure you all knew this so that you were being monitored at least once/ month. Blessings Judy
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thank you everyone for your thoughts about night sweats....all the blood work done in the last two weeks has ruled out anything serious (thank goodness!), so I have to assume that this is related to my lungs and perhaps an infection of some sort (though I feel fine). So far the recent sputum samples show nothing but I am waiting on getting results for MAC (which takes weeks). I will pursue the CT scan and/or xray as well. If the MAC has returned ( have now been free of that since 2017) I will have to decide what "route" to take; the Aricayce seems a little tricky concerning liver issues. Thank you so much for your support! Pam
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@judyhodgern Thank you for the reminder. I have a UMASS appointment today and will mention that along with other questions. I do get monthly bloodwork which, so far, is ok. Thank you. Irene