Hey Steve,
I too am 36 and was diagnosed in March of this year. I got the call saying I need to get the Cancer Center as they are suspicious of Myeloma. My story to this point was Completed half marathon Sep 2017, cross country running up until Nov 2017. Took December off. decided to go back to Gaelic football early Jan 2018 to help some of the younger guys out and hurt my hip in a sprint pre-season test. This pain went on a few weeks, wasnt getting better with physio. Sneezing and coughing starting really hurting, so on the physio’s recommendation I went to the doc to get check for a hernia in March. Then got the call, saying high numbers of paraproteins – get to the hospital.
In the space of 3 days I had more bloods, full skeletal, MRI and bone marrow biopsy. All my other markers came back normal bar the MRI and xray where it flagged the a Solitary plasmacytoma of bone. So was then sent for PET scan and tumor biopsy to confirm. Started 5 weeks Radiation which finished in June 2018.
Fast forward 3 months I was sent for more bloods and a follow up PET scan. PET scan revealed the tumor had shrunk and my Paraproteins had dropped from 58 to 15 although there was some uptake in my 5th left rib and behind my stomach so had a CT scan last week and I am waiting the results. Fingers crossed for nothing. Blood levels still good.
What I would say to you is increase your plant based foods in your diet – cutting out dairy, meat and obviously processed foods, (watch fork over knife on netflix) and try and alkaline your body, cancer cannot live in an alkaline body. Just do some searches on it. A great help to me was https://nutritionfacts.org/
Also I have been on high doses of Tumeric to help with inflammation and my immune system. There is a lady our age in my work who has Smoldering Myeloma with protein levels of 28, she is now on yearly checkups. Not sure if that help you as I dont know her other numbers.
Treatments are getting better and better all the time, get in control of your own body in terms of nutrition, our bodies are amazing bits of kit. Whilst the NHS do an amazing job, we can also help ourselves. Many cure stories out there.
Hope this is of some help…
