Abby update

JENNYC

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Well very sad news! Her sweats are still above 100 :( we are so sad and confused! He also gave us her 2nd mutation, it is a class I stop mutation called 2585 delT or R785X. Our dr said that all of our wonderful results are just a coincident and says that Kalydeco is not working for her. I'm so confused! Her PFTs and no cough and no sniffles are amazing! Really confused!
 

JENNYC

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Well in my crazy person moment I goofed up her mutation. He said 2585delT or 2453delT. If anyone has any helpful info I am all ears.
 
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marcijo

Guest
Shoot Jenny-I'm sorry! Will she get to stay on the Kalydeco to keep testing it out? A 10% increase in PFT's is nothing to scoff at-I wish your doctor was more supportive!
 
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kots66

Guest
Jenny, I must have missed some other thread of yours; just to make sure I understand 100% -- your daughter has df508 and 2585delT (a class 1, frameshift mutation), she started kalydeco, and she has seen a 10% PFT inrease?
 

JENNYC

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Yes she started Kalydeco on June 28th and we started with an FEV1 of 1.41 and as of right now she is blowing anywhere from 1.48 to 1.53 depending on what kind of effort she feels like giving me at the time. :) Also Abby has really bad sinus' and Texas weather has been really crazy this last month, not to mention she has been swimming and going to birthday party's and just living it up, which normally would result in a cough or sniffles or both and she has had nothing!!! It is amazing!! Her dr thinks that it is a coincident, and maybe it is. I am not a doctor and I am trying very hard to keep a level head and be very objective. Luckily for me he wrote the prescription for 6 months so I will keep her on it to further see if it is just coincident or is this medicine helping.......in that length of time hopefully I will know. Although I have seen others say that it can cause sinus infections, so hopefully it won't confuse me worse. I am also going to try to get him to agree to a sweat test at another facility which I'm sure will be like trying to pull teeth, but I deserve to know some real numbers. Or else how can I know for sure?

And I cannot tell you how blessed we feel to have people who don't even know us supporting us so much! I can't lie I crumpled when I found out that her sweats were still above 100! The support group I have at home and my online support that I have received from all of you and my facebook friends have been out of this world amazing!! I could have done it without you but would have been so much harder. It is so nice having people to talk to that know what all of this means! God bless all of you!!! And I will keep everyone posted when there is more to tell. :)
 

JENNYC

New member
Well I have been just laying low and just praying and watching. So I wanted to share with everyone what's been going on with Abby since I haven't posted results in a while. We have changed how we give her the Kalydeco as suggested by someone either on here or facebook, I can't remember. We now give it when she is about 3/4 of the way through with her meal. So still NO cough and NO sniffles!!! Can I get an AMEN for that one!! Very excited about that!! But she has been blowing about the same with an occasional 1.65, 1.63 but I always blow them off thinking that the machine must be messing up or she must be tricking it somehow. So last night she blew a 1.62 twice!! So I am now allowing myself to get a little excited about that, but still just a little. I want to see it on TX Children's machine, then I can really get excited!! Remember she started at 1.41. So now starts another real test....SCHOOL. We usually always have a hospital stay between Sept and Dec every year. Praying we don't have to have one now!! Time will tell. Just wanted to give everyone a little update. We have a clinic visit on Sept 22 with Dr O, and will ask him to order another sweat test at a different facility so that we can get real #'s and not just greater than 100. I think that this will be a battle, but one that I am willing to fight. I also hope to sit down and talk with him about why he is being so negative about her results, and hopefully we will both come out smiling and understanding each others position. We will also ask him to do a blood draw to test her liver function, and of course see if he will still prescribe her Kalydeco or if he is going to cut her off. I will let everyone know!!
 

Aboveallislove

Super Moderator
Jenny,
Has Abby's ENT looked at her sinus? You might remember the story of the mom's whose son is on Kalydeco whose ENT said his sinuses "look different" and was so amazed wanted to get more info on Vertex for investing. Just thought that might be some other good evidence that it is working for her.
 

JENNYC

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No I must have missed that somehow!! The only thing is her ENT would have to get another CT scan done, and I don't want to expose her again without having a problem because she has already had 12 CT scans done. :( But oh how I would love to know!! I have decided to make an appt at our local clinic tomorrow and ask them to go ahead and order her other sweat test instead of waiting until Sept 22. I think I want to go with some kind of ammo in my back pocket if he doesn't want to prescribe her anymore. He only gave her a 6 month supply. But thank you so much for letting me know about the sinus'. I definitely feel like her sinus' are better! :)
 

CrisDopher

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Why all the tests? Why the reliance on a sweat test number to see if Kalydeco is working? Either there is clinical improvement or there isn't. So far, there seems to be improvement. You can't tell in just a short couple of months. Give it the full six. Heck, I'd say give it a year - long enough for any placebo effect to have passed.
 

JENNYC

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I for sure will keep her on it as long as I can, it's her dr that is not believing that it is working. He said that peoples lung function can go up and down like that and that it is not due to Kaly, but I tend to disagree, because we Never go this long with no cough and especially no sniffles. It's wonderful!! Now I try to be skeptical at the same time and I try to see that it can just be a coincidence, but I judging from what we have seen since June 28th I have to believe that it is helping her. Now we just have to convince her dr or switch drs and I really don't want to do that because he knows her so well and she has been through so much with him. He knows all of her "quirks". He is just upset at me I think for me pushing him into letting her try it when he did not want to. It's a tough situation. :/ But thanks so much for your input :) And I guess only time will tell if her sinus' truly are going to be half way "normal" again. So far it is looking very positive!!! Glass is definitely half full :)
 
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