AML Second Stem Cell Transplant

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  • Days Three and Four

    Alron
    Early Saturday morning , well midnight Friday I woke with severe stomach pains, this was due to constipation and no way can you sleep through it. Chemotherapy either gives you the runs or the opposite there never seems to be a middle road! I used the...

  • Admission and first couple of days

    Alron
    I was required to come into the Clinic for a pre admission Blood test early on 24th March followed by insertion of a Hickman line later that morning in the Vascular Clinic. This was not something I was  looking forward to as two years ago the pr...

  • Lead up to Second Transplant

    Alron
    One drawback of this Chemo treatment was cost, the NHS will only allow Venetoclax to be used free for a first transplant with any further treatments to be paid for and it not a small amount (details can be found in the NICE guidelines for medicine co...

  • First Transplant Recovery and Failure

    Alron
    After my first transplant I was discharged earlier than I thought I would be on June 7th 2024, it was good to be home but unnerving as it felt that I was no longer in the safe enviroment of the hospital and access to all the expertise I had experienc...

  • Chemotherapy and slow recovery.

    Alron
    From September onwards I was on 5/2 Chemotherapy (five days on two off and two back on) Azacitdine and 14 days Venetoclax running together with then two weeks rest then another round of chemo to be repeated for the next few months. I was also recover...
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