*YAHOOO!!! YIPPEEE!!! Number 1022 in the Zero Club Zavie*
On 12/3/06, dgooner < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi I'm Dave from England was diagnosed in May 2002 with CML. After > being diagnosed went from 1st stage straight into blast crisis, so had > a stem cell transplant in August 2002 from my brother who was luckily a > perfect match. Have been on glivec since approx July 2002 suffer badly > with the cramps and have tried quinin drinks which didn't do much to > help. I am on magnesium tablets which do help a bit but still get bad > cramps now trying the calcium option. I have been lucky with all the > treatments so far and my bcr able has been negative for nearly 3 years. > How much would I like to come off Glivec now? Just to see if it is the > Glivec or the transplant that has worked but, my wife doesn't want me > to just incase we have to go throiugh it all again (and I can > understand her point of view as I think she went through more than I > did when I had the treatment). However I do have that thought in the > back of my mind alot. But hey if it aint broke dont fix it is what they > say. > > Good luck to you all out there. > > Dave > > > > > -- Zavie Miller (age 68) 67 Shoreham Avenue Ottawa, Canada, dxd AUG/99 INF OCT/99 to FEB/00, CHF No meds FEB/00 to JAN/01 Gleevec since MAR/27/01 (400 mg) CCR SEP/01. #102 in Zero Club PCRU 5/02 at RVH (suspect) 2.8 log reduction Sep/05 3.0 log reduction Jan/06 PCRU 11/06 at The Ottawa Hospital e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 613-726-1117 Fax: 309-296-0807 Cell: 613-202-0204 Yahoo ID: zaviem --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
