Hi Helen

sorry to hear your experience with the biopsy. Never plesent .  I had my first one with no pain relief, apparently East Surrey have no pain relief available, my next two have been at the marsden where they give gas and air.  It does help, apparently the idea is to have about 17 deeps breaths before they start and continue throughout t…[Read more]

Hi all

I can see you are all approaching your SCT soon, just like to say all the best to you and I hope it goes well.    I had mine November 14,  as you say Helen, everyone is different, I have chatted with a lot of patients at the marsden when on hospital visits and we all vary in our symptoms before and after SCT.  I have had encouraging new…[Read more]

Thank you for getting back to me.  It is reassuring to hear from you that I am not alone in this pain thing.  I am seeing the pain team again in a couple of weeks and will mention the pregablin. I have heard of other people taking this.  My curvature in my back is made worse by my breast bone (sternum) collapse because of the myeloma. It is a st…[Read more]