Life's Journey with Multiple Myeloma

Apologies for not updating this sooner  but here’s a quick summary of where we are currently:

Alpesh has now completed seven cycles of the RDV combo.  He is currently off meds this week (his rest week). 

End of Cycle six results were great – still no trace of the M Protein.  That’s 3 cycles in a row where we have not seen any M protein!

As a precaution, Alpesh submitted a 24 hour urine test this week and we should get results next week.  Sometimes protein shows up in the urine so we wanted to cover that base too. 

We are waiting for approval from the insurance company to do another MRI as Dr Z wants to make sure that all is going well internally since the blood results have been very positive.

Hair – it’s growing J and is about 1cm in length now.  Coverage is still not dense but he’s definitely not bald anymore!

Alpesh’s spirits are still up – so no worries there!

[by Sima]

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