[Beacon Staff]

Weekly Poll - Smoldering Myeloma & Quality Of Life

by Beacon Staff on Wed Sep 12, 2012 10:39 am

This week’s poll is about how smoldering multiple myeloma affects quality of life.

A few clarifications:

First, this poll is for people who currently have smoldering myeloma (and have not progressed to symptomatic myeloma). Caregivers or family members of someone with smoldering myeloma may feel free to answer on their behalf.

We are also running a second poll this week asking the same question of MGUS patients, and we have previously run a similar poll for symptomatic myeloma patients (links are at the end of this post).

Second, please compare your current quality of life (from the last few weeks) to your quality of life before you were diagnosed with smoldering myeloma.

As always, feel free to post comments, thoughts, or feedback in the space below. They can be very useful to other readers. For instance, please describe both the positive and negative effects smoldering myeloma has had on your quality of life.

As mentioned above, we're running two polls this week. Here's a link to the same poll open to monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined (MGUS) patients:
https://myelomabeacon.org/forum/weekly-poll-mgus-quality-of-life-t1317.html

For those who are interested, we ran a similar poll a while back for people with symptomatic or active myeloma:
https://myelomabeacon.org/forum/weekly-poll-quality-of-life-t1190.html

[mrsv118]

Re: Weekly Poll - Smoldering Myeloma & Quality Of Life

by mrsv118 on Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:59 pm

So far I'm the odd ball but I feel that my life is so much better. I don't have any symptoms from my myeloma. Added a few more doctors appointments to my schedule. But my appreciation for each day is over the top! I notice so much more now then I every did before. The birds singing in the morning, the crickets at night. Time with my family. I won't go on but you get the idea.
What a journey life is!