Hi Brenda, Of the 3 cisplatinum treatments I was supposed to have, I had my second one either 4 or 5 days late (can't recall which) because I had too low a neutrophil count for a while and I didn't have the third one at all because I was very neutropenic by then and it took months to recover.

There are medicines (one is called "Neulasta" here) to help with this and I don't know why I wasn't given this. Maybe they thought I wouldn't get as bad as I did and by then it would have been too late to have done me any good. It's also possible that my MO's office tried and my insurance quibbled about this and I never heard, since I understand from a cousin who had it during her breast cancer treatment that here Neulasta is actually quite expensive.

The main thing is to really try to avoid germs when your neurophil count is so low. if you can avoid being in public places at all, I would do so. And wash your hands regularly. If you have any symptoms of infection, even somehting mild, let someone know right away. I started having minor urinary tract infection symptoms (just a little irritation, normally I would have not worried about this) at one point and told someone before they got bad and they got me on meds right away.

Nelie