Transplant anti-rejection medications. What's your advice?

Am at 7 months post transplant and I am on .5 every 12 hours.

@gaylea1
Wow! 1 mg of Tacrolimus every 12 hours, that is the lowest dose I have heard of! Is that because you were such a good match to your donor?

@jolinda I was taken off most of my anti-rejection drugs fairly quickly. Within 4 months I was taken off cellcept and prednisone. Then my tracilomus was reduced to 1mg every 12 hours. That's all I take now.

@jolinda I also had hair loss post transplant and started taking biotin. Within a few months the hair loss ended and it has gradually started coming back.

Hair loss! One of my first side-effects showed up just days after being released from the hospital when I noticed gobs of hair falling out in the shower. I was so grateful for the new kidney and it seemed petty to care about my hair but I worried if it would never stop. One of my doctors at Mayo Clinic theorized that my hair loss was caused from a combination of trauma to my body from surgery, being severely anemic and as a side-effect from one of my anti-rejection drugs. She prescribed Vitron C (an high-potency iron supplement with vitamin c) to treat the anemia but there was nothing else she could do. My hair continued to fall out to a lessening degree for the next two years until it finally rebounded. I will never have the same hair but it got better. I was recently told hair loss should be treated by a dermatologist which I think is interesting.