CancerCompass message board discussion started by IOWAGIRL on 4/8/2008 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,22824,0.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Hi there... My friend Beth is 35 and has been battling LGL Leukemia for several years.  It went away for abotu two years after a year of oral chemo, and then it came back about three months ago.  They put her back on the oral chemo but she can't keep her hemoglobin up.  A normal person is a 16... her oncologist tries to keep her around a 9 through weekly transfusions.  On Friday she had to get three bags b/c she was down to a 7.  Anyone else going through this?  Do you have any words of wisdom for us?  She is literally living from one blood transfusion to the next... she doesn't even need the weekly checks... she can tell her hemoglobin is really low when she can hear her heart beating in her ears.  It SUCKS!  IOWAGIRL Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT Please search the message board, I had that stuff for years and started taking olive leaf extract with wonderful results. I get it from Swanson Health Products and I started to feel better within a few weeks. I take 1500 mg a day. Longbow  longbow Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT