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.