Hi Jo, thanks for asking. I had my treatment yesterday, it was lovely and cool on the ward as they had the a/c on full blast. I saw the consultant first and she told me that my last blood test showed a drop in the myeloma blood markers, it has come down from 90 to 65 which is good news and shows that the treatment is working. She repeated all of my blood tests so she could get a better measure of the paraproteins and light chains and she said she’d let me know what they are via a letter.
From next Tuesday I am alternating going for the Bortezomib injection and having the full days treatment. I think that’s on my schedule until the end of august then I have a block of days cases.
The only side effect I’m having so far is that the Dexamethasone is disrupting my sleep. I was awake at 3am this morning and had to get up at 4am. A couple of weeks ago I had some constipation too (down to the Bortezomib apparently) so I was prescribed some laxatives and they seem to have settled me down.
How are you doing? How is your husbands back?
Najmah
