smilne

  • smilne replied to the topic neutropenia in the forum Side-effects 7 years ago

    hi Gala
    Dad is doing better thanks. He had GCSF injections to raise his white bloods as his dropped to 0.5 – scary stuff. The injections did what they needed to do and he has now just done 2 weeks of chemo without any hick-ups so far, fingers crossed going forward. I understand that this is a very common problem and a lot of people do need the…[Read more]

  • smilne started the topic neutropenia in the forum Side-effects 7 years, 1 month ago

    Hi everyone, I am fairly new to this forum. Dad diagnosed just before xmas with MM and started VTD, had one chemo session and got infection within 4 days (ended up being chest infection and had IV antibiotics and blood transfusion), came home after 5 days in hospital. 10 days later had 2nd chemo session and again got infection after 6 days, so…[Read more]

  • Hi Lisa

    I feel your pain, my dad was also diagnosed just before xmas and its very worrying  time. My dad has 2 broken vertebra in his back but that’s the least of my dads worries, I won’t bore you with the untold complications he is having with chemo at the mo! I hope your dad gets sorted soon but you need to ask as many questions to the c…[Read more]

  • Hi Peter & tmcintye – thanks both so much for your responses, this gives me much hope. We are slowly getting our heads around this and remaining ever optimistic for the challenges ahead. Dad has light chain and they said 39 paraprotein, but I’m still not understanding this yet and this part I find all very confusing. He unfortunately already has 2…[Read more]

  • Hi all

    My father has recently been diagnosed with mm and starts VTD on 23 Jan with the hope of SCT later on.  After several months of complaining to the docs that he had pains in his ribs and back, he wasn’t actually diagnosed until they did bloods and found he had hypercalcemia (13 Dec 2017) and could hardly walk as he was in so much pain with h…[Read more]

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