I’m getting ready to start the process for autologous stem cell transplant next week. I’m wondering if there will be a point in my future where I have energy and feel good again. I have suffered from terrible fatigue for a number of years now. It would be terrific if I will eventually feel like my old self, but maybe that doesn’t happen?

And is 0.34 kappa good? in December it was 0.2 alot of folks seem so more knowledgeable about tests

Question I have:
Should I be in this group if I only have SMM. Everyone else in here has MM. Just confused and concerned, but this group is very helpful in gathering information. On what I might be experiencing at a later time........

If yes, have you had less severe disease and a better prognosis?
I read a study called women in connection that found 60% of people in the study that took a statin were less likely to be diagnosed with multiple myeloma. And that rose that were diagnosed with multiple myeloma were less likely to have severe disease and a better prognosis.
Just curious to hear from our team members.

So the idea of cure got me thinking after I recently relapsed after a SCT. I have said this before, why call it a SCT when the real action is to use high dose chemo/poison (use that word poison in front of your oncologist and watch their reaction) to eradicate ALL of your bone marrow
Now use stem cells to regrow marrow. How/why does one single cancer cell come back and eventually clone and multiply? I though the Melphalan killed it all. So maybe a few survived and hid from the maintenance… read more