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I don’t very often post on this forum but I was wondering if anyone has had the same problem as my husband is currently experiencing. He had his second SCT in June this year and it was more challenging this time round then the first time. He seems to be fighting virus after virus at the moment and the hospital can’t find the cause. He had been having temperatures up in the mid 38.5c for day after day and the hospital kept saying that it was viral and he would need to ride it out but just in case they given him three different antibiotics. Thankfully over the last few days his temperature has dropped down to around the 37.5c. In our routine clinic appointment this week they were reviewing his bloods as usually but they said that they had detected some light chains which is the first time ever as he has non secretory myeloma so me being me my mind is running at 100 miles an hour and thinking all sorts. I was wondering if anyone has come across this kind of thing.

[debbiegParticipant]

Thank you for posting on the Discussion Forum.  I am sorry that you haven’t received any replies to your post to date.  My name is Debbie and I am one of the Myeloma Information Specialists here at Myeloma UK.

I hope that your husband is feeling better in the last few weeks.   With regard to the detection of light chains in your husband’s blood tests I hope his doctor (haematologist) has been able to clarify the situation in his particular case.  Everyone has a ‘normal’ range of light chains in the blood, and the presence of infection can cause light chain levels to fluctuate – it is the level of light chains, and more significantly the trend in these blood test results that his doctor will monitor during his clinic visits.

If you have any questions, or would like to talk things through, please feel free to call the Myeloma Infoline on 0800 980 3332, or alternatively you can email directly to askthenurse@myeloma.org.uk

With best wishes

Debbie

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