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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Colin in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2015 07:33:33 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Vicki,</p>
<p>I am so sorry to read about Colin&#8217;s passing.</p>
<p>Wishing you all the strength and love at this sad time.</p>
<p>Lots of love</p>
<p>Karen  xxx</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic dental care in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2015 07:03:06 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi robbojnn,</p>
<p>I like you have been having endless problems with my teeth and gums since my sct, though you sound to have worse, I know I am on my way, they get worse by the day. I too get a bit of esa, but be careful what box you tick, I ticked the box (it is very confusing), my dentist gave me a deep cllean and waivered (sp) the cost (approx&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-39162"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/dental-care/#post-122312" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Is this really happening? in the forum Newcomers</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 22:58:41 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Tony,<br />
Sorry bit late replying, but just on a catch up. Reading your post really took me back to the shock of diagnosis of something I had never heard of, at first I thought skin cancer!!<br />
Looking at the date you posted, things may have moved along, so I will finish.<br />
Wishing your wife and your family the very best, at the worst of times. This&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-39081"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/is-this-really-happening/#post-122218" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Dry and Brittle Fingernails in the forum General</title>
				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/dry-and-brittle-fingernails/#post-122216</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 20:33:15 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all, </p>
<p>Wow Dorothy, 11 years &#x1f600;! Good luck for the 25th. Are they your own stems? Have they been in storage? Hope I am not being too nosey, just that I have some in storage for my next SCT, at my next relapse. Best wishes.</p>
<p>Just off to pile some coconut oil on, I definitely think there is some sort of connection with the MM and nail.</p>
<p>Regards to&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-39079"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/dry-and-brittle-fingernails/#post-122216" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Pom cycle 18 in the forum Treatment</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 14:52:07 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Andy,</p>
<p>Well jel!1</p>
<p>Enjoy your hols, and have a beer or 2 for me (hic)</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Karen 🙂</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Bloated stomach in the forum Treatment</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 11:36:56 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David,</p>
<p>Glad to be of help, I agree, it really does help discussing with other MM sufferers.</p>
<p>I often wonder that, was it because it was not as bad as first thought, or there was not enough benefit to be gained to make it worth it.  I am putting it on my list of questions for my consultant, she will have had a report off him, I see her next&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-39073"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloated-stomach/#post-122209" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Bloated stomach in the forum Treatment</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 10:00:10 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ps, sorry David, I sent without checking spelling etc!</p>
<p>Karen</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Bloated stomach in the forum Treatment</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 09:55:40 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi David,</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply. </p>
<p>About my Vertbroplasty, it went well, though the surgeon/consultant, said it was a challenge! I admit to being very nervous, but I was knocked out, thankfully as lying on my tummy was very uncomfatable.  I came round bout 3 hours later, they gave me lunch and painkillers, though I do not remember any pain. I had&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-39070"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloated-stomach/#post-122202" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Bloated stomach in the forum Treatment</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 07:31:20 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi David,</p>
<p>Thanks for your best wishes, just re read my post, i was not very clear, it took 4 years to be diagnosed,  which was nearly 3 years ago, I am on my first relapse after various treatmeats, Thalidomide, SCT, Vertbroplasty (for crushed vertabrae, I lost 3 inches in height), But they said I will always have pain, hence the Zomorph.&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-39066"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloated-stomach/#post-122198" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic SCT in the forum Treatment</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 23:47:52 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Maureen and Ian,<br />
 I have not been on for a while, glad to hear Ian has had SCT at last.<br />
Your description of him takes me back, he just has to rest and eat when he can, but not panic at weight, I sent most food away first 10 days( approx), it will come back. I had a &#8216;mysterious infection&#8217; which cleared when they removed my Hickman line.</p>
<p>I was&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-39061"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/sct-4/#post-122195" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Bloated stomach in the forum Treatment</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 23:23:41 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Anna and David, sorry to but in, I have not been on much recently, I find this site friendly and useful, but my myeloma came  out of the cupboard recently, first relapses after SCT, so a bit shocked as greedy me expected longer </p>
<p>I hope you are both doing as well as can be expected.</p>
<p>Just an observation, an awful lot of people end up diagnosed&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-39060"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloated-stomach/#post-122194" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Dry and Brittle Fingernails in the forum General</title>
				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/dry-and-brittle-fingernails/#post-122192</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 21:53:38 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Janet and all,<br />
I match your description too, I am on Zometta bone strengthner, and zomorph, I am also on cycle 3 of velcade ( my first relapse after SCT). My feet and hands are very dry too. Does anyone have vertical ridges on hand fingernails?  Mine started on a couple of nails pre diagnosis.</p>
<p>Best wishes</p>
<p>karen    &#x1f431;</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Memory Lose in the forum General</title>
				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/memory-lose/#post-122182</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 11:05:34 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Janet, ( and all),</p>
<p>I had SCT in January 2013, it has definitely affected my memory and concentration, I used to read a lot, now it&#8217;s a struggle. I may try that magazine with short stories.  I suppose being on zomorph will not help, I have a lot of bone pain, because of late diagnosis, so it&#8217;s probably a mix of all of the above.</p>
<p>Good luck and&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-39040"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/memory-lose/#post-122182" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Bone marrow biopsy in the forum Smouldering myeloma / MGUS</title>
				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bone-marrow-biopsy-3/#post-122181</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 10:47:46 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Joe<br />
I am a bit late saying this, but glad to hear your tests went okay, fingers crossed for you.<br />
I am treated at Leicester Royal also. I have had 3 bone marrow test, I had a local and gas and air, the fist two were not pleasant but bearable. The most recent test was horrendous, worse than giving birth! And when nurse said that she did not get&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-39039"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bone-marrow-biopsy-3/#post-122181" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Good while it lasted. in the forum Treatment</title>
				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/good-while-it-lasted/#post-121793</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:58:49 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Richard,<br />
Hi Richard<br />
So sorry to here this.  I too am back on treatment, I have just started my second cycle  of Velcade and Dex, I went on the MUK5 trials but got radomised the standard treatment.  I know what you mean, peed off, I got 17 months complete remission after SCT, they said they don&#8217;t do SCT after first relapse, I have stem cells in&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-38588"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/good-while-it-lasted/#post-121793" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Date for SCT in the forum General</title>
				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/date-for-sct-3/#post-121291</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:58:58 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Maureen,</p>
<p>Good luck to Ian.</p>
<p>best wishes<br />
Karen<br />
xx</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic It&#039;s back! 17 months after SCT in the forum General</title>
				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/its-back-17-months-after-sct/#post-121288</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:51:55 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ps,</p>
<p>Sorry if that was dreary, I actually do not feel ill, just usual(a bit worse)pains. Managed to get away to France last week for a couple of days, lovely 🙂</p>
<p>Hope everyone is as well as can be expected, I intend to look in more as it is a lovely, friendly site.</p>
<p>Keep smiling xx<br />
Karen</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic It&#039;s back! 17 months after SCT in the forum General</title>
				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/its-back-17-months-after-sct/#post-121287</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:47:23 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all, thought I best check in.  thanks for all your best wishes. The last few weeks have been hectic, backwards and forward to LRI and general, MRI, bone marrow biopsy (IT REALLY HURT THIS TIME!), full skeletal survey.  I am making the most of this week, as it is the only week I will not be going to any hospital appointments! Yippee.</p>
<p>My&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-38149"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/its-back-17-months-after-sct/#post-121287" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic It&#039;s back! 17 months after SCT in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2015 06:11:22 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Mavis, </p>
<p>Thanks for your best wishes and reminding me about my toolbox! 😉</p>
<p>Hope you are okay xx<br />
Take care<br />
Love </p>
<p>Karen</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic It&#039;s back! 17 months after SCT in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 08:15:15 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ps,</p>
<p>sorry Megan, only just seen your second reply.</p>
<p>That sounds a bit of a cocktail Phil is on, I hope it works out for him, sorry to hear of chest infection, they gave me really strong antibiotics for mine, shifted it.</p>
<p>Thanks for replying and best wishes<br />
karen xx</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Megan and Vicki,</p>
<p>Thanks for replying and your kind words. Good luck to Phil and Colin on their treatment/jouney. </p>
<p>Vicki, I have stem cells (my own), in storage, but whether they would do that so soon after my first.  I went on trials after diagnosis, and did 4 or 5 cycles of Thalidomide, then prior to my sct had mephalan (made me very&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-37419"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/its-back-17-months-after-sct/#post-120644" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2015 08:26:37 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I have not been on for a while, been busy feeling a bit sorry for myself, as my November check up revealed the dreaded mm has shown up again since August, my consultant said not to worry and they would see how fast it’s coming back in early January, it has increased from 1.8 g/l in November to 4.2 g/l early January, I was alarmed by t&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-37385"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/its-back-17-months-after-sct/" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Bloods for 3 monthly clinic,  what if???? in the forum General</title>
				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloods-for-3-monthly-clinic-what-if/#post-120606</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:50:33 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I have not been on for a while, been busy feeling a bit sorry for myself, as my November check up revealed the dreaded mm has shown up again since August, my consultant said not to worry and they would see how fast it&#8217;s coming back in early January, it has increased from 1.8 g/l in November to 4.2 g/l early January, I was alarmed by this&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-37383"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloods-for-3-monthly-clinic-what-if/#post-120606" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:50:33 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I have not been on for a while, been busy feeling a bit sorry for myself, as my November checked up revealed the dreaded mm has shown up again since August, my consultant said not to worry and they would see how fast it&#8217;s coming back in early January, it has increased from 1.8 g/l in November to 4.2 g/l early January, I was alarmed by&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-37382"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloods-for-3-monthly-clinic-what-if/#post-120606" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Can our profiles or posts give name of treating hospital @consultant? in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:39:48 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Dawn, I too attend attend the LRI, and like Tony I attend the special clinic as like Tony I am on the trial. However, my latest visit (12 days ago), I had to go to the usual clinic, there was a 2 hours delay as there was a shortage of consultants, I was eventually seen (Dr Barton) two and a half hours later, and then I was sent upstairs for&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-36490"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/can-our-profiles-or-posts-give-name-of-treating-hospital-consultant/#post-119535" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Can our profiles or posts give name of treating hospital @consultant? in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:39:48 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Dawn, I too attend attend the LRI, and like Tony I attend the special clinic as like Tony I am on the trial. However, my latest visit (12 days ago), I had to go to the usual clinic, there was a 2 hours delay as there was a shortage of consultants, I was eventually seen (Dr Barton) two and a half hours later, and then I was sent upstairs for&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-36489"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/can-our-profiles-or-posts-give-name-of-treating-hospital-consultant/#post-119535" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:18:58 +0100</pubDate>

				
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Getting to the scary bit now!! in the forum Newcomers</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 09:45:21 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Cupcake70,</p>
<p>Firstly hello and welcome, I do not get on here as much as I would like but it is great and a friendly and very helpful site, quite unique to us!<br />
when I read your post and concerns it took me right back, I am post sct approx 22 month, not all plain sailing but well worth it. Like Wallace I found the Melphalan awful. but since early&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-28523"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/getting-to-the-scary-bit-now/#post-118700" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Testing for vitamin D levels in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:29:38 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all, I too take the Adcal and Zometta, not sure if my blood is checked though. At my zometta seesion this week I was told my sessions are to be changed to every 3 months instead of every 6 weeks.  Usher (nurse) said this is good news, I will ask at my next clinic though.</p>
<p>Regards to all</p>
<p>Karen</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic The pain is back... in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 21:30:06 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Tom, sorry to hear this, I hope this next round of treatment achieves a longer remission and few side effects.</p>
<p>Good luck and very best wishes. </p>
<p>Take care </p>
<p>Karen<br />
xx</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic The pain is back... in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:58:03 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aye, it is a tricky bugger and no 2 cases are the same, which makes it even more difficult.<br />
Wishing you well.</p>
<p>Karen</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Help needed! in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:41:44 +0100</pubDate>

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				<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:36:30 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Tom, just read this, I get pains in the same part of my spine, ribs and sternum, I am still on Zomorph, I was told I will always have some pain as there was a lot of bone damage (late diagnosis), so I just have to control it. I had my sct in January 2013, so if my appetite goes or I am more tired, or pain is worse, I worry that it&#8217;s coming&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-28282"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/the-pain-is-back/#post-118355" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic SLIM  in the forum End of Life and Grief</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2014 10:06:23 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Eve,<br />
So sorry to hear that Slim has passed away.<br />
Thoughts are with you at this very sad time.<br />
Karen x</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Bloods for 3 monthly clinic,  what if???? in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:57:23 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all land thanks for best wishes, and thanks too Peter for chin up 😉</p>
<p>I have still not had my protien results, I have had my copy off the doctors letter from the consultant, has my blood results, but says progressing paraproteins (sorry if spelling wrong), I am sure they would contact me if a problem.</p>
<p>Update on sore on my back, I seen a&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-27813"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloods-for-3-monthly-clinic-what-if/#post-117842" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloods-for-3-monthly-clinic-what-if/#post-117565</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 11:55:20 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi TontF, I have just seen Dr Barton ( for the first time), I said hello from you, she said hello back to you! 🙂 She mentioned there may be a myeloma group starting back up.<br />
My blood count is all within range, kidney function okay, calcium back up( it was borderline), just waiting for my paraprotien.  I am in day ward waiting for zometta (45&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-27530"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloods-for-3-monthly-clinic-what-if/#post-117565" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloods-for-3-monthly-clinic-what-if/#post-117541</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:06:44 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many thanks David</p>
<p>Regards </p>
<p>karen<br />
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				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloods-for-3-monthly-clinic-what-if/#post-117538</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:21:28 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Tony,</p>
<p>I will say hi if I see her, never seem to get the same consultant twice in a row nowadays.  Although I heard from Dr Garg recently, (emails) regarding holidays. She gave thumbs up as I am in remission! ;-).</p>
<p>Regards<br />
Karen H<br />
x</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:32:31 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all,<br />
just been for my bloods prior to my 3 month check and Zometta on Thursday, just to share the feeling of dread and what if&#8217;s. Yesterday was 19th months since SCT, I am well (apart from ongoing back pain, and a sore on back that won&#8217;t heal), but knowing how quickly thisawful thing can change can get one down sometimes!</p>
<p>So now I have said my&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-27470"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/bloods-for-3-monthly-clinic-what-if/" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Baby Injections. in the forum Off topic</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:25:45 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi again Tony, I am on the trial too, and go up to the Hope clinic, I agree it is much better, and seem to get seen to much quicker! One day we may bump into each other again. I know what you mean about getting tired.  Keep well.</p>
<p>Karen x</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Baby Injections. in the forum Off topic</title>
				<link>http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/baby-injections/#post-117058</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 07:48:10 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ps, sorry I typed in the tag box, hope I have no mucked up your thread! K x</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Baby Injections. in the forum Off topic</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 07:44:58 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Tony, I am 19 months post SCT, I had my last baby injections at begining of July, and I am on 3 monthly clinic visits, mine is 14th August.  So we are pretty much the same stage. I still have morphine for back, and 6 weekly Zometta.  But I drove for the first time since diagnosis the other day!  There are more positives than negatives post SCT&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-26156"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/baby-injections/#post-117057" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:45:38 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry I did not read before I posted, sorry about bad spelling  ;-/</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:44:28 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Dave, I know it is daunting, and there is so many questions, the are so many types of MM that it makes it even more confusion, it is very treatable.  I was eventually diagnose 2 years this month, I had a sct in January 2013, and have been in complete remission for around a year, I have pain issues, but am grateful that I am alive. Sorry going&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-25957"><a href="https://forum.myeloma.org.uk/activity/p/25918/#acomment-25957" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:59:42 +0100</pubDate>

				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:40:36 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Dave, sorry to have to welcome you to this site!  I hope you find it as useful as I have.  A very friendly crowd and helpful.  Makes things a little less scarey.<br />
Good luck to you XX Karen 🙂</p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic High Myeloma Incidence in the forum Off topic</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:35:28 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi All, not been on for a while and have only just stumbled on this. Very interesting!  I live in Oakham, 9 miles (ish) from Melton Mowbray.  We live a 2 minute walk from a plastic engineering factory.  Twenty years ago I worked for 5 years (North West of England) for Nuclear Electric, catering for workers, labs etc. So I could take my pick from a&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-25917"><a href="http://www.myeloma.org.uk/forums/topic/high-myeloma-incidence/page/3/#post-116547" rel="nofollow">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Karen Hemmings replied to the topic Living with myeloma book: your hints and tips  in the forum General</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:51:21 +0100</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Richard, thanks for your reply. Another couple of tips in your reply about attitude and there being no point in feeling guilty.  Your are right, but easier said than done sometimes eh?</p>
<p>Also rereading your earlier post, I must also make a point of remaining anonymous.</p>
<p>Regards<br />
Karen</p>
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