Anyone here got first hand experience with somebody who has or had Myeloma? (Blood Cancer) I know it can't be cured but it can be treated; how's the treatment process, what's involved, did the treatment process make them feel ill or sick or anything, generally "how was it?"Tell me your first hand experience(s) about it please.
Still looking for anybody who has lived experience with this.
>>1570700>looking for anybody who has lived>cancer
>>1570717It doesn't have to be somebody who has it themselves, I'm asking for somebody who knows a person / has looked after somebody with that type of cancer. Like what was the treatment like, did it fuck them up, etc.
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>>1570621My grandma had it. Yeah, treatment makes you feel sick - nausea, lack of appetite. Chemo is basically sitting down in a clinic for an hour and getting an IV of yellow fluid. You can take anti-nausea meds to help, but depending on dosage and sensitivity you might still have trouble keeping stuff down. You'll be tired. As the cancer progresses (if it does), you'll get more and more tired and feel progressively more weak. They'll probably get you pain meds, because the cancer will cause pain. It all depends on what stage you're at, what symptoms you have, and how fast the cancer is, it's apparently highly individualized. If you take drugs, it's basically just the side effect of whatever drug, like if they have you on steroids you could get the side effects of the steroid.The experience is basically just a lot of pill-minding and waiting and doctor visits for most of it. If you get chemo then you spend time in a clinic getting an IV drip and dealing with nausea. Bone marrow transplants hurt like a motherfucker, deep bone aches during recovery. I mean, with the cancer your bones are gonna hurt anyway eventually, but yeah. If you have questions, you should talk to a doctor about it or join a forum for people with it, I'm sure there's one somewhere. Maybe a general cancer support forum and locate a thread or start your own about multiple myeloma.
>>1570904>Yeah, treatment makes you feel sick - nausea, lack of appetite>If you get chemo then you spend time in a clinic getting an IV drip and dealing with nausea. Bone marrow transplants hurt like a motherfucker, deep bone aches during recovery.Well shit, that's really not what I wanted to hear.It's not absolutely certain yet until she gets some more scans done, but I'm like 95%+ sure at this point that my mother has Myeloma. The thing is, I know her. She's said to me for many years now that if she gets cancer, then she'd rather not get treated and live the rest of her life as best she can, rather than prolong it and live a slightly longer life of pain and suffering confined to a bed.She's the one and only thing left in this world I care about.
>>1570928My grandma did chemo for about a year before she decided she was tired of it and went on hospice. She lived for about two more years after that.People change their tunes, though. I knew a guy who said basically that exact thing (well, he said he'd blow his brains out rather than die slowly), but he ended up seeing it through to the end. The reality of getting the diagnosis and dealing with chemo versus almost certain death might change her mind, or at least make her open to the option. My grandmother only really stopped because it was clear that it was too aggressive to be stopped, and she was ready to see grandpa again whenever god decided it was time.There are options to deal with the sickness of chemo, and chemo isn't even necessarily the first treatment option for myeloma. You can take anti-nausea medication to help with the sickness and loss of appetite, although you'll still deal with the weight and hair loss if you have a high enough dose. I think there's also options for taking chemo as a pill rather than an IV, but you might need to meet certain requirements for that to be an option, I don't know. The myeloma will degrade her quality of life eventually whether she has it treated or not, but if she tolerates the chemo well (my grandmother did not), it might prolong her time of better health. This is all stuff that you should (or she should) talk to the doctor about. I wish you and your mom the best of luck, anon.
