[yorgun]

Terrified about my husband's urine test results

by yorgun on Sun Jan 11, 2015 9:36 pm

We went to a rheumatologist for some inflammation complaints on my husband's knees. The blood test showed everything normal, including kidney function, etc, except his CRP level was high (1.2) when it was supposed to be 0.5 mg/dl. Blood counts, calcium, and everything else look normal range.

Except small monoclonal lambda light chain spike detected on his random urine test.

I googled what this means and am totally devastated. We have the appointment on Thursday, but really wanted to hear some other experiences since waiting to learn is so hard.

Thank you so much everyone for your answers in advance.

[Multibilly]

Re: Terrified about my husband's urine test results

by Multibilly on Mon Jan 12, 2015 9:11 am

Yorgun,

One really can't determine if there is a good chance for having some stage of multiple myeloma from purely a random urine sample. I realize this is hard to do, but try not to fret and jump to worst case conclusions while you wait for the upcoming lab results.

Also, even if this turns out to be an early stage of some sort of monoclonal gammopathy such as MGUS, people go through their entire lives without even knowing they have MGUS. They never experience any symptoms and never require treatment and are none the worse for it.

So, again, try not to fret while you wait for the next round of lab tests.

[Mike F]

Re: Terrified about my husband's urine test results

by Mike F on Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:44 pm

I'll add that, although any cancer diagnosis is extremely scary, myeloma is not nearly the worst of them. Current treatment protocols give most of us a fair number of active years after diagnosis, and the treatments in the pipeline offer hope for long term disease management and even (someday) a functional cure.

It's a tough thing to come to grips with (as most of us here know all too well), but it's not an automatic death sentence.