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Transplant: Vaccines: Covid, Flu, RSV
Transplants | Last Active: Oct 14, 2023 | Replies (44)Comment receiving replies
Hi @valbob 😊
It's a pleasure to meet you. I am so happy that you joined this discussion! Your post is excellent. If your husband has CMV, that probably means the immune suppression is running a little high. In that instance, your husband would probably have my experience with the covid vaccine, which was no immune response and no antibodies created by the vaccine.
In addition to Valcyte, did transplant lower your husband's immune suppression dosage or is the CMV currently at a low viral level at this time?
When I had active CMV during the first year of my transplant, I took Valcyte and my immune suppression was lowered. (I also had a very low WBC before they adjusted the immune suppression down).
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Thank you for sharing your experience. They stopped his Cellcept when his wbc went so low. They put him on 1800 mg of valcept, which was stopped last Friday, after 2 weeks of undetected cmv blood tests. The valcept played heck with his kidney numbers. Tomorrow, after his weekly blood tests, they may put him back on the cellcept. It has been an ongoing trial and error. Of course we wear masks when not in the house. Since his extreme drop in his wbc, two weeks ago it was at 0.8. the only place he goes is dr. appointments. We realize that while needed, a hospital and dr's office is the worse places to avoid sick people, but what can you do?