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Lymphoma (Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin)
Archives for February 2016
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working during maintenance
I was initially diagnosed with type 2 follicular lymphoma Dec 2014. After 6 months of benda/rituxan I was put onto two years of rituxan maintenance. After my 2nd treatment I slowly started the process of returning to work. I'm a full time lab technologist (we help diagnose lymphoma among other things, ah the irony). The…
Still have stomach issues after autogolous transplant-anyone else?
Hi all- my mom is day +75 post autogolous stem cell transplant for transformed dlbcl. She still can only eat very small amounts at a time.. If she eats more than that she becomes nauseous and feels full- occasionally vomits. We saw the doctor today who seemed to think this was not normal this far out from transplant. Has…
Husband diagnosed with Follicular Lymphoma stage IV-finished treatment but...
My husband who is 69 yrs. and in excellent health prior to this shocking diagnosis (when is it not?), just completed 6 months (2 days each) of Bend/Rituxan 3-1/2 weeks ago. He did pretty well with each, aside from the apparently typical side effects, which were not fun; but he bounced back after about 7 days following each…
My Stem Cell Transplant journey
I know I've posted bits & pieces on several topics and deicded it might be easier to pull it all together. Summary: Dec 2014 - Diagnosed with follicular non-hodgkins lymphoma. Dr also found I had pluerisy of the right lung caused by the lymphoma.A catheter was put in so we could drain the fluid on a regular basis until the…
NED
As I sit here with happy tears saying NED over and over I am beyond happy! I know that I'm high risk and that remission could be short or long, I'm happy to say that for now I'm NED! No evidence of disease! Happy day today! Sharon
Cumulative side effects or in my head?
Howdy all. First-time poster looking for insight. Fighting Hodgkins. Heading into ABVD infusion number 6 of 8 next week. So far I've tolerated it relatively well except for neutropenia which it seems Neupogen is taking care of. However, this go round it doesn't seem like i'm having my typical "pop" and I've been more run…
Zevalin
I have not posted in a while. I am in remission since 09 , Have a scan coming up in June. I have so many other problems, I have sever gerd and ended up in the er last night with terrible pain. I was diagnosed with follicular NHL in 04 had surgery on my neck to take the salivary gland out. Then did 22 radiation treatments.…