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Old 01-18-2009, 09:47 PM   #11
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Wink Death Risk Found From Anemia Drugs

Does your Mom take diuretics or other blood pressure medicines Rich? Blood pressure medicines that contain diuretics can lower potassium.
By the way, everyone, sometimes iron supplements can help anemia related to chemo. Iron pills can cause constipation, so I took liquid iron prescribed by a doctor the whole time I took chemo. I never had a procrit shot or a blood transfusion. I never needed any shots for low white blood counts either. I took prescription supplements for that too. I took common liquid iron that can be bought in a pharmacy when I ran out of the prescription liquid iron. No problems, thank goodness !!
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