This week’s poll is about elevated calcium levels in the blood, a condition known as hypercalcemia and one of the common symptoms of multiple myeloma.
A few clarifications:
First, this poll is for anyone who has been diagnosed with symptomatic multiple myeloma. If you are a caregiver or family member of a myeloma patient, feel free to answer on their behalf.
Second, please answer whether you had elevated calcium levels specifically at the time of your diagnosis.
As always, feel free to post comments, thoughts, or feedback in the space below. They can be very useful to other readers. In particular, if you had elevated calcium levels at the time of your myeloma diagnosis, others may find it helpful if you describe how your doctors treated your high calcium.
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Re: Weekly Poll - Hypercalcemia At Myeloma Diagnosis
I believe I probably had elevated calcium but not sure , reason I'm responding is that some time prior to my presenting with multiple myeloma I came down with Kidney stones - one stone was so large that it could not be passed and it blocked the duct from my rt kidney to my bladder causing the urine to back up into my kidney causing tremendous pain - they put in a stent to allow drainage and about 2 weeks later they went in with a laser and blew the stone into tiny fragments -I screened my urine and it was determined that the stone was made of calcium carbonate - the second stone passed unaided - I was put on a diet low in carbonate which seemed to remedy the situation but within a short period of time I started having health problems (pain in lower spine) that eventually lead to the diagnoses of multiple myeloma
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Nipon Ginko - Name: Nipon Ginko
- Who do you know with myeloma?: ME
- When were you/they diagnosed?: 2004
- Age at diagnosis: 66
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