Need advice

Hi GailJ and welcome to the forum.

Apart from the paraproteins, have you had anything else arising from blood tests? Examples would be high calcium levels, low eGFR (which measures how well the kidneys are working) and anaemia (which is very basically a low red blood cell count).

This is from Chat GPT (I inputted your paraprotein levels and back pain):

Doctors look for a combination of:

"Higher paraprotein levels (often much higher than 3 g/L)
Increased plasma cells in bone marrow
Evidence of organ damage (known as “CRAB” features):
Calcium high
Renal (kidney) problems
Anaemia
Bone lesions or bone pain
Without those features, myeloma is unlikely."

The other thing that I must emphasise is that myeloma is highly treatable. The first load of treatment is not exactly fun (I have been through it), but it is effective and people get on with life afterwards. Personally, after going into remission in 2023, I am working, exercising, holidaying and generally enjoying life! Meanwhile, new and improved treatments are being developed and approved all the time.

I can’t thank you enough for this reassurance, genuinely. The waiting is awful and I have made myself very ill with the stress and worry. I was told on my last bloods that my anaemia and kidneys were fine. I’m praying that my back pain will just be a slipped disc etc. thank u again