New Prescription By Dr Advani | Lenalidomide Regime | Multiple Myeloma

Diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma

Dr Advani after going through our bone marrow aspiration reports, suggested Lenalidomide regime, he was confident that this medicine would help him. By this time, I was tired, irritable , depressed and was angry with life as a whole. Wondering what this new drug and their side effects will be?

 We came back to Hyderabad, went back to Dr Dattatreya and consulted regarding this regime, he agreed and wrote the prescription and schedule for taking this medication, Dr Advani had suggested this as our first medicine ,but as our doctor wanted to try velcade we went along with him, Dr Dattatreya was feeling upset that we should have gone with Dr Advanis advice earlier, but since we had all agreed on that.......

Lenalidomide started alright and since this a tablet and Dexamethasone also a tablet, we were comfortable. This we started in June 2009 and after 2 months the result was very encouraging, his M.M. had come down to 4%, we went and did bone marrow aspiration and this also confirmed all good results. Both the doctors advised for 2 more months of Lenalidomide regime for consolidation.

The doctors also advised us that we will have to go undergo a bone marrow transplant after 2 months, so we have to decide where to do it ?

Fortunately after 2 months of lenalidomide, Anand was in complete remission, all the test were conducted, pet ct was taken, bone marrow aspiration done immunofixation, electrophorosis test, all the results were encouraging.

Treatment Diagnosis | Reports after using Velcade | Multiple Myeloma

Every medicine has a regiment. So Velcade has a regiment of 4 cycles.

After 2 cycles we took his blood samples the results were very hopeful and our expectation of remissions for Anand seemed a probability

   

The bone marrow showed “8% of cells” as when we started with 44%.There was another gentleman who was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma who was undergoing the same treatment as ANAND, during the same period, so we had something to compare, Luckily Mr MURTY also showed good response to the medicine VELCADE.

During this period I was giving home medicine therapy as well, reading a lot on internet getting to know how other people were treated with alternative medicines.

I had also received advice from my guru Jaggi Vasudeva that first try to get him in remission only then try other source of medicine .

 

Anyway we gave other 2 cycles of VELCADE combination regime to Anand and again the same blood samples, pet ct. and bone marrow examination

After 2 cycles we had to wait for a month to get the entire tests done.

To our utter astonishment, the myeloma had become very aggressive in this one month and was back to original readings.

We were very depressed, and did not know what to do?

Dr Surendra Reddy of Vijaya Diagnostic was a pillar of strength, and he said let your doctor try other medicines do not give up hope.

Dr Dattreya was also astonished since, he had always had a very good result with VELCADE regime.

It’s so difficult after 4 months to know that you are right on the same spot as you began.

In the meantime Anand was also depressed, but he said he is going to fight it and let’s go back and discuss with Dr ADVANI.

How We Discovered Anand Had Multiple Myelome

The day was 13th of February 2009, “My Son Came Down And Asked Me, Mom Dads Not looking well” show him to a doctor, I was preoccupied, asked him to please show on the way to office as the doctor sits near there.

Meanwhile I called the doctor and said, please do not prescribe antibiotics, they are not effective his cough and cold is reoccurring every 15 to 20 dayside please investigate. The doctor prescribed routine medicines and gave a list of investigations to be done; promptly we went to a diagnostic centre and gave his blood samples, ray of chest to be done. The reports came next day

Hemoglobin was: -9

ESR was            : -130

Reports were not good showed some serious infection.

The x-ray showed lesion.

Our good Doctor advised us to get bone scan done, exactly a pet CT. Still I was cool as he had a T.B. problem earlier, I thought this has reoccurred.

I asked my chest physician how serious is the problem, can we wait for some time and investigate, he advised us to go immediately for the investigation.

As we were travelling next day called up my friend, who is good Doctor, he said it is okay wait for 2 days and when you get back, do not delay.

We coolly went to GOA had a nice holiday and came back, went for investigations.

After All The Investigations They Carried Out He Was Diagnosed With “MULTIPLE MYELOMA 3 RD STAGE”.