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[hacarleton]

Hi all, my name is Heather. I was diagnosed in December with CML and started Sprycel 100mg. My question is have you noticed viruses and colds hitting you harder than they did before? I've been sick for the past month with a nasty virus that the rest of my family got over pretty quickly. 

[Gail's]

I have the same question. I was getting sick with viral cold when I began gleevec. I very rarely have any kind of cold and got a flu shot this year. Had fever the night after starting gleevec that lasted about 8 hours. Sick as a dog for 2 weeks from onset and now almost a week later starting to feel a little better. Think I have a subsequent sinus infection, seeing dr today to see if that's the reason I'm so stink in' dizzy.

[hannibellemo]

There have been some nasty viruses out there this year! If it lasts longer than a week you don't have a garden variety cold. I started getting sick on Feb. 4 and it is just this week I've started feeling like I might be getting better.

 

I lost my voice for well over a week and have been, as I mentioned in another post, just a little mucus producing machine. A lot of people have reported developing subsequent sinus infections and, even, pneumonia. Most reports are saying 4 weeks minimum for this virus.

 

I don't get colds and I'm very seldom sick, (evidently, I just get leukemia instead -  ) so this threw me for a loop.

[Trey]

It could be an issue very soon after starting TKI drugs as the leukemic white blood cells are killed off quickly and the normal WBCs have not ramped up yet.  But within a couple months or so the immune system returns to fairly normal, and after a while there is no difference.

[gerry]

I've been off a TKI for 15 months now, wound up having a couple of viruses involving vomiting since I've been off, never really had much of anything while on Gleevec. Sometimes it just depends on what is going around at the time.

 

Plus the stress of being diagnosed and starting a new drug impacts your immune system.

[Billie Murawski]

True when I started Gleevac at dx I got sick 3 weeks after then again a couple months later, no problem now except when I'm around little kids.

[Gail's]

There have been some nasty viruses out there this year! If it lasts longer than a week you don't have a garden variety cold. I started getting sick on Feb. 4 and it is just this week I've started feeling like I might be getting better.
 
I lost my voice for well over a week and have been, as I mentioned in another post, just a little mucus producing machine. A lot of people have reported developing subsequent sinus infections and, even, pneumonia. Most reports are saying 4 weeks minimum for this virus.
 
I don't get colds and I'm very seldom sick, (evidently, I just get leukemia instead -  ) so this threw me for a loop.

There have been some nasty viruses out there this year! If it lasts longer than a week you don't have a garden variety cold. I started getting sick on Feb. 4 and it is just this week I've started feeling like I might be getting better.
 
I lost my voice for well over a week and have been, as I mentioned in another post, just a little mucus producing machine. A lot of people have reported developing subsequent sinus infections and, even, pneumonia. Most reports are saying 4 weeks minimum for this virus.
 
I don't get colds and I'm very seldom sick, (evidently, I just get leukemia instead -  ) so this threw me for a loop.

Saw my dr, said yes to sinus infection, now on antibiotics. I had influenza, likely the one the flu shot didn't cover this year