Hi Jackie and welcome to the forum.
A quick introduction: I was diagnosed with myeloma in 2022, had treatment and have been in remission since 2023. I am NOT a medical professional.
As your Googling indicated, I think that you have myeloma.
Your kappa light chains are sky high (suggesting specifically kappa light chain myeloma – the same as me) and your liver function test results are consistent with bone lesions. Your rib fracture is also consistent with that.
I had even higher kappa light chains (a few thousand!). I don’t remember anything about liver function, but I did have hypercalcaemia (the myeloma leaches calcium from bones into the blood).
The next step would, I anticipate, be likely to be a biopsy. A sample, typically from the hip bone, would be taken for analysis. Also there could be a scan.
You asked about treatment. If myeloma is confirmed, typical treatment is often:
– Daratumumab
– Velcade (also known as Bortezomib)
– Thalidomide
– Dexamethasone.
However, many new types of chemotherapy have been developed and approved in the last few years, so you may get a variation of this.
However, the more important message is this: even though this is a huge shock, and right now it probably doesn’t help that you are in limbo until the diagnosis is probably confirmed, you can get through this!
People live long, long lives with myeloma these days. The treatments can be highly effective (and if one doesn’t work so well then another is likely to work much better).
Since going into remission, I have been working, going on holidays, exercising and generally enjoying life.
You are not alone!
Please feel free to post messages here if you have anything that you want to know.
Regards
Rabbit
