I took Prednisone for several months to ameliorate these problems, but one of Prednisone's main claims to fame is that it kills lymphocytes. The buffy coat cells are lymphocytes. Thus, the Prednisone treatment may have caused the buffy coat cells to prematurely relinquish their beneficial effect. Nonetheless, the slow and bouncy rise of the IGA makes it appear that some buffy coat activity is still ongoing. I have begun interferon to test the theory that interferon may spark the buffy coat cells once more into action.
Life is indeed interesting here on the edge of high-tech medicine.
One never knows what changes next month will bring. I'll keep you posted on my progress or lack thereof. He had been hospitalized with seizures on the night of the 6th. The seizures left him brain-damaged and incoherent. His team of doctors decided not to continue the dialysis program of three-times weekly since renal failure in early fall 2000.