Neutropenia

@ccasper The first time I stayed in for a whole week on IV antibiotics and they eventually allowed me to go home despite my low levels under the proviso that I didn't go in public, and took antibiotics at home for another week as 'protection' (which were awfully strong and gave me worse nausea than chemo!). To be honest I think they took pity on me because I have a 1 and a 3 year old and I was missing them terribly! The second time I was admitted, my neutrophils starting rising during my stay, and they were confident that things were improving so were happy to let me go home after 2 days (apparently once they start going up, they shoot up quite fast) - but again, I was sent home with the horrible antibiotics - though that time I was really pedantic about taking probiotics too (even while in hospital) and that made a big difference for my poor tummy!
My oncologist reduced my next chemo to 80% strength (she said she really hated to do it, but that it was preferable to get through it reduced, rather than have to cancel the AC altogether) and so far it's been much more tolerable (though it was only 6 days ago, so the real test will be next week when they take my bloods!).
I'm not sure if you're having Taxol after your AC, but they tell me that even for those of us who have had particularly low neutrophils that the Taxol doesn't have such an effect on the numbers so we've just got to get through our AC!
It really does wear you down, doesn't it?! Sending you lots of hugs xxx