Last year it was just MGUS. In less than a year, just before my 74th birthday, it’s Stage 2. I’m giving treatment a try, and enjoying life moment to moment.

Hello Lucinda, TJ here from London, England. I had a bit of Neuropathy while going through chemotherapy but the consultant haematologist adjusted my medication and the situation improved. Hope you are keeping well. I try to read to keep my mind sharp and learnt to solve the rubik's cube to stimulate the brain. Finally, I have several sessions with a psychologist attached to hematology. I'm in a better place now. Take care and best wishes.

No Lucinda, we all are. If you can find a support group, by all means attend it. They can help when everyone in your family (like mine) don't want to address the 800 pound Gorilla in the room.

I have MM and no, you are definitely not alone in this...I feel the same a lot of the time... please stay very strong and keep fighting 🙏🌹

Chemo and stem cell treatments costs money not everybody has

@@ottoavila9895 fortunately I live in a civilised country so all my (excellent) treatment was free.

Other people have other health issues with this cancer. It’s sad you can’t express even the slightest sign of being sick in front of people with out them saying your being over dramatic or wanting sympathy. I played that game for years: hiding being sick and in pain constantly. But after so many your body won’t allow you to hide it anymore. So I try to just be around my family that understands and I don’t go out much if any at all anymore because putting up a front is exhausting physically and mentally.

Everyone is different and everyone’s case would differ. Some people find it easier to cope than others. Some cases are more responsive to treatment than others. I’d imagine it must be hard for everyone at some point.

Glad you are living well with Myeloma but as others have commented, Myeloma affects everyone differently. For me, it has attacked every bone in my body, causing fractures and extremely painful lesions, making it very difficult to walk and move. So, telling fellow Myeloma sufferers to not "make it bigger than it is" was extremely disrespectful, dismissive, ignorant and arrogant. Things have gone fine for you up to now but Myeloma is an unpredictable demon that will attack when you least expect it, so revisit your comment when the demon decides to reveal itself again.

i wish you. maria mother of jesus. and mother of all humans to make you health very fast.

Quit pedaling quackery and giving people false hope. Causing people to waste money chasing a lie. You should be ashamed of yourself.

@@wxman2003 RELAX. No one is "pedaling" anything. Did I write, curcumin cures cancer...NO. I said "look into curcumin's benefits", if that translated into something more for you, than that's your issue. I have multiple myeloma and use curcumin because many studies have proven it can help make chemo more effective and helps lower inflammation in the body, which is a big driver of cancer. The one who should be ashamed of themselves is YOU for your arrogance and ignorance.