New here today feeling very overwhelmed
I am completely devastated. I am so scared. I can’t lose him, I’m panicking and crying so much and can’t eat or sleep. He has started the gentler form of chemo. But I’m just so scared of the prognosis. I had a manic episode and psychosis nearly 2 years...
Hi x, my mum was out of the blue diagnosed with a rare form of AML last October. The cancer is AMML and it’s terminal. It’s been an awful time since October for both of us and my mum, who’s 83, has spent many days in hospital. I’ve been with her virtually...
My husband of over 30 years was diagnosed out of the blue with AML at the end of August, since when he has been hospitalised with brief breaks after each round of chemo. Initially he went downhill for the first week then spent a week in icu 'circling...
He is still really weak and shaky. He is not eating solid food, he is on food supplement shakes, he is trying to have 1 meal of fruit and yogurt, but often can’t. He is on day 66. He has had flu and has an infection in his lung he is sleeping at lest...
My wife was diagnosed with AML and a mutated IDH1 gene (December, 2023). Treated with azacitidine and Venetoclax starting January 2024, which helped for 18 months, then she relapsed. Her condition worsened really bad, but after couple of months was prescribed...
Hi just wanted to say hello as new to this forum. I was diagnosed with AML in 2017 and had to have a SCT as my cytology showed a defect in the high risk category,my sister was my donor and I remained in remission until September 2023 when I relapsed...
Hi , good evening , very new to all this and very scared and anxious. My newly wed husband of 10momths was diagnosed with AML in July this year out of the blue . A very fit healthy man . He has had 2 sessions of chemo and had every side effect related...
Hi Group As mentioned my wife has AML and finished her cycle of chemo without too many issues after 5 days. Then on Friday day 6 she had shivers and her blood pressure drops. She is identified on the wsrd then her blood pressure drops and she is rushed...
About 6 or 8 years ago I had a Radical Prostatectomy and a long period of Radio Therapy. Now this 78 year old after a Bone Marrow Biopsy have been told there is no treatment that won’t make me worse. I also have a tickling cough getting worse and a few...
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