| I've been diagnosed with multiple myeloma stage 3 about 20 months ago. I used revlamid and dexamethesone to lower my kappa light chains down to 800. It remained at that level for about 6 months. My doctor was in no rush to move me on to another treatment so I didn't do anything. I read somewhere that the most effective treatment was a tandem cell transplant so I decided to have the transplant. That was 3 1/2 months ago and my blood work has come back with a complete response. Right now my Kappa light #s are at 11. My doctor says that if I want, he would perform another transplant but he wouldn't recommend it because the treatment would be redundant. I have a complete response so it won't get any better. My other choices are: to do nothing and keep my condition monitored or put me on a maintainance program of revlamid 10mil. then down the line move up to 15. He seems to be leaning toward this treatment because I had such a great response to the revlamid and had no major side effects. He's leaving this decision up to me and I don't know what to do. Any input would help. Thanks. Carl Last edited on Fri Sep 18th, 2009 03:44 am by chendy7804
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