I may be having some graft vs. host (gvh) symptoms. I went to the doctor last week and showed him my "rosy" complexion. Rosy may be somewhat of a euphemism. My face looks like, as he put it, I spent a week in Florida without sunscreen. The skin on my trunk is kind of peely, too. Add to those my dry mouth (which turned into a lovely thrush infection), and the docs think we're looking at some gvh. I go back on Tuesday to have another look at me. They were going to start tapering my immunosuppressants, but with things as they are, he left me on the current dose. If it is gvh, tapering would only give my new immune system more room to recognize my body is foreign and attack all the more. I just need to remind my new cells I am their new home. Come on in and unpack, friends, because this is your new life. No need to fight. Let's just get along. Glad to have you on board.
We'll see what happens after Tuesday.
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