Posted 3/15/2014 2:24 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, My 14-yr old son is currently one Remicade (3 infusions) and Apriso having just tapered off prednisone. I just realized that Apriso is causing his hemoglobin to not increase even with iron supplement. His HGB followed a pattern, it increased during the 6 weeks we stopped Apriso and switched to Remicade. And then stopped dead where it was after we resumed Apriso 4 weeks ago on doc's advice. Doc hasn't realized it is Apriso when I discussed with her last night - I realized this morning after thinking of this mystery overnight.
I would love to hear thoughts from forum members' personal experience with Apriso and iron absorpotion or anemia. Also, doc had mentioned about tapering Apriso at some point once he starts healing but now I have to discuss with her this issue where is hemoglobin is stalled at 10.3 (we want his anemia to get fixed as well).
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Diag 08/14 with moderate pancolitis; Started Lialda - didn't work. Started prednisone in Nov; hospitalized in Dec with flare; started Apriso, didn't control it; started remicade, worked. resumed Apriso too. Pred tapered off this week. Now on Apriso and 8 week remicade, iron supplements all along.