I just got email from a nurse at Wake Forest:
Your IgA was >805, M-spike is back already and shows spike in beta gamma of .30, and gamma of 0.18.
I’m sure the “>” is a typo. The lab report gives a distinct value when the number is that much. The only time I’ve [...]
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I started the Rev/dex extended access protocol in January, 2006. When I began, my IgA was about 2300 mg/dL and my m-spike was 1.5 g/dL. By the end of April, my m-spikes (I usually have two) totalled 0.3 g/dL and my IgA was in the 500s. Since then, those values have gone up [...]
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This is a valuable bit of information about steroids and blood sugar sent to me by a list friend who is an MM sufferer and MD.
Transient elevations of the blood sugar do very little harm, diabetes is a long term disease. You have to have persistent elevations of your blood sugar over decades (yes [...]
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Who will be at the IMF seminar in Philly? A friend and I are going to drive up. I’m going to try to get the MMA list members who will be there together after dinner Saturday night. I know of a few that will be there. If you’re going to attend, [...]
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Since I stopped the high dose dex and went to standard dose, remaining on 25 mg of Revlimid per day (21 days a month), my IgA has gone up. So has my m-spike. Not so much at first glance, but it is a 20% increase. I emailed my doc to see about [...]
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