How long does it take for liver levels to improve before starting Opdualag?

Liver function levels typically need time to normalize before starting treatments like Opdualag, though the timeline varies for each person depending on their specific situation and what caused the elevation. Your healthcare team will be monitoring your bloodwork closely to determine when it's safe to proceed. The waiting period can feel challenging, but taking care of liver health first is an important step in your treatment journey. Thank you for sharing those kind words with the community - that supportive spirit means so much to everyone here going through similar experiences.

Hey William, got the call saying let's schedule your chest CT scan. Doing that tomorrow. 🙏🙏 We'll see what we see.

Will be thinking about you and praying all goes well. Please let me know if you feel comfortable doing so. Just had my brain MRI yesterday, awaiting the results and getting blood checked tomorrow to see if this Prednisone brought down my levels. I think the waiting for the results are the worst then I also hate getting the results before the doctors do and trying to decipher what they mean.

I like putting mine in chetgpt. I've been doing that since the beginning. It's an interesting and informative conversation that also helps me understand what's what, generates questions for me to ask my oncologist. You should try it. 😉 I'm available for additional conversation on FB or IG messenger @davidel57

I always had my tx when my LFT were high. Did you start Opdualag?

Treatment #5 tomorrow. 👍

We're thinking this is good and praising God!! We'll confirm with Dr tomorrow. 😊🙏👍😁 IMPRESSION: 1. Stable bilateral pulmonary nodules without new or progressive metastatic disease in the chest.

Sounds good . My pulmonary nodules got bigger and increased in numbers till Opdualag. 🙏🍀

Got my best report to date. Doc confirmed the latest CT report is good news. Stable is the word. We stay the course. Keep treating with Opdualag. Keep watching with CT scans now and again. Brain MRI he says because melanoma likes the brain. Anyway, waiting on a treatment bed. Absolutely full house at the Cancer center. 🙏😜

That’s AWSOME!!! Still signs of the cancer but getting better? I am still awaiting my brain MRI results from over a week ago, starting to get nervous. Got blood today so awaiting to see if levels are normal and can finally begin Opdualag. I am so happy you got good news, it’s great!! Hope your treatment goes well. Thank you for letting me know

You bet!! Praying you get positive results and are able to start treatment. Hopefully you can can reduce that prednisone as well. We discussed cutting back on mine depending on the bloodwork says next week but he wants to be cautious which I appreciate. Don't want damage my liver. Results anxiety waiting is real difficulty. 😬 Hang in there my friend. 👍🙏

Great news David. I had my brain MRI the middle of March and all was good. Waiting till my next Pet scan to see if cutaneous nodule on my left lateral knee is metastatic. Whole new ball game if it is 🙏🍀

Just bragging now. Latest 3 liver numbers. AST, 72, 44, 29 ALT, 116, 68, 30👏 🙋 👍🙏 👏

Hi David, just got my blood work back from earlier. My levels are finally within range, they want to drop my dose from 80 to 60 and check again next week. Hope I can start my treatment soon and hope your treatment went well today

My AST was down to 32 and ALT 43 a little over but better.

Finally after a few months of elevated LFT, they have been normal. I don’t drink, just do gummies 😂

Well, liver counts are finally within range so hoping can start my Opdualag this week. They put me on the schedule for tomorrow so keeping fingers crossed they will allow me to get it. I got this port over a month ago and still have been able to use it. Hope you all are doing well

Doing okay. Back to teaching high school full time so that's pretty exhausting but for three or four months I wouldn't have believed that would happen. 22 school days left so the kids are crazy but I wanted to finish it out. Then I'm retiring. 😊 Anyway, doc scaled back my prednisone just a bit and on Sunday night I was up peeing 7 times, felt exhausted, rough. Turns out I was draining fluid which is fine. Dropped 7 lbs so far. I knew there was quite a bit of water weight. Hopefully my liver enzymes hold for my weekly blood work. Keep me posted on your treatment? Mine makes me exhausted for a day or two. Don't hesitate to reach out if you want to. 580fourseven056twofive ✌️🙏🙏🙏

Finally got Brain MRI results, all looks good doc said. I still have that small meningioma but they say they are mostly benign and it’s so small right now it is not concerning but will keep an eye on it. I also received my first Opdualag treatment yesterday. Feeling some waves of nausea on and off, anyone else experience this? Anyway, hope everyone doing well with their treatments, thinking and praying for all of you.