My husband had back pain before the treatment started, his consultant gave him liquid Morphine.  The pain has eased.  He was signed off work for the first 3 months thankfully because he does get very tired and although he is back doing two mornings a week he has a nap when he gets home. He also has hot flushes, its quite funny when we s…[Read more]

My husband was constipated for 5 weeks and was the start of investigations.  It was a horrible time and was quite a relief to get a diagnosis so that treatment could start.  As you say Annmarie – we will get through this and come out stronger.

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My husband was diagnosed in December and started VTD just after Christmas.  His paraprotein level was 11 and after 5 cycles it was down to a “trace”. Lightchains were 112 and went down to 0.2.  I don’t really know what these figures mean -everybody is different. He does have mood swings which is because of the Dexamethasone but they are g…[Read more]