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    • March 19, 2020 at 8:42 am
    tkoss
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      a heads up: Derm made a really big deal that i should not take aspirin prior to office excision of a mole. he even went as far as to push excision back a week until i had time to clear aspirin. He was perfectly fine with me taking Tylenol as substitute.

      I emphasize he made a really big deal about the aspirin because i had a WLE and SLNB in hospital and excision in derms office and basically was instructed to knock off aspirin the day before. Now Derm is saying it is essential to knock off aspirin weeks before.

      SO HERE’S IS THE PROBLEM;

      switching to Tylenol(acetaminophen) raised liver enzymes and my infusions are canceled until enzymes come down. whoah!

      i had the saline drip going and they were ready to mix nivo when PA called it off. To say that PA came in and demonstrably told me in no uncertain terms tylenol caused enzymes to drop and so infusions had to stop would not be correct. i basically had to pick thru his comments to get at the root of the matter. Tylenol may or may not have raised enzymes, and cessation may or may not send levels back to normal and i may or may not resume infusions.

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        • March 20, 2020 at 10:59 pm
        Nadia1
        Participant
          Thank you for sharing this so we can be aware of this possibility. My mom is on Tylenol because of her blood thinners but has been lucky so far with liver labs (no fuss made about Tylenol during her immunotherapy). Just had a call with the specialist pharmacy for Braf / Mek inhibitors who flagged her BP meds and Zofran too for possible interaction with MEK inhibitor which I hadn’t heard before – every one has a different opinion so I just keep a list of all that I hear and hope for better consensus one day:(. Stay strong! Nadia
          • March 21, 2020 at 7:59 am
          Tsvetochka
          Participant
            Yes. It was interesting to watch my liver levels go up and down directly in relation to how much Tylenol/paracetamol I took. I am very, very cautious with it now.
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