[CMLHope] Re: Nerve Pain

2006-07-03 Thread DAWN RODEGHIER
suzieq:  I have had these types of problems since I started on Gleevec and they haven't gone away.  I don't get them all the time only once in awhile, but they are killers when they show up!  I have called it bone pain but it's in the same area of the legs that you described.  I haven't had it in t

[CMLHope] Gleevec ponderings

2006-07-03 Thread Avis Ferguson
I have had several opinions on the Gleevec question facing my cousin, Dona. Rob: It is my understanding that insurers can decide whether to keep any certian medication in their formulary. Allyson: the only explanation I can imagine as to the difference in Aetna's treatment of availability of Gleev

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2006-07-03 Thread Robert Hutcheson
Leg pain is uncommon with Gleevec. Some people believe that Chiropractors are not the best sourse of information for people with CML. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com - You rec

[CMLHope] Gleevec from India

2006-07-03 Thread mburwen
I posted a mention of generic Gleevec being made and sold in India and received several private emails asking me for more information re how to get the drug. To head off more of these emails, I'll post what I know - which isn't much. A Gleevec copy is being made by Ranbaxy Labs, Ltd. and sold un

[CMLHope] nerve type pain

2006-07-03 Thread ihsbooks
my dh, Terry, experiences great pain throughout his body. On Gleevec, it was at times excrutiaing and required pain meds such as Vicodin. Unfortunately, pain meds would interfere with his work, so most often, he did without that comfort measure. he experienced a "holiday" from pain when he