For those of you with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia, did anyone have a low grade fever when your AIHA was active?

Thanks,
Jill

Fever is the body regulating the temperature of the body and is influenced by the anemia. Some people have fever with anemia and some do not. I personally will run a low grade fever and then sometimes my body temperature will drop down below normal for a number of days only to shoot back up. When the anemia becomes stabilized body temperature levels to normal as well.

Merimac,
Thank you so much for weighing in on this. I keep forgetting to ask my hema about it - and this fever thing has been complicated by the fact that I had a sinus infection, so I was on antibiotics. Now I know the infection is gone, but the fever is back. Nothing high, just around 99.5 or so. I've just tapered off Prednisone, so I think the AIHA is probably active again, judging by my energy level. They ruled out lymphoma for me, so that's why I thought it was related to the AIHA.

Thanks again,
Jill

No fevers for me throughout my experiences with this blood disorder. Definitely going to ask about procrit, wondering if it is anything like intragam which puts a coating on your red blood cells so its not as easy to destroy them. They have used this when my levels were extremely low. Any side effects, is it a simple shot or does it have to go in over time like rituxan etc.