Does this get any easier and less Scarry
How long b4 everyone's numbers come down or it looked like it was working ??????????
Hi Karen, what chemo are you having. I had Bortezamib mixed with dexamethosone i completed two rounds about and my light chains dropped significantly, unfortunately it also gives me neuropathy in my hands and feet so they have taken me off it now.
I have another I injection each week called daratumumab, which
Seems to have no major effect.
My light chains are right down so now we are hoping to work on the amyloid which I have been told will take a long time.
It has not been easy, my blood pressure dropped is very low, so that is being treated, and I feel very seedy and shaky. I am improving and my bad days are getting less. I have a great team at nepean who are on the ball.
Hang in there
Within 6 months I was in complete hematological response
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