[CMLHope] Re: Macular Edema

2007-02-08 Thread Myvety2k
Hi Dee, I have had problems with burred vision for quite awhile. My right may be burred for awhile then one morning I will wake up and left eye will be burred. A month ago I went and received an eye exam because may left eye had been burred for more then a few weeks. I received new

[CMLHope] Macular Edema

2007-02-08 Thread dee hedman
Hello Group! Greetings from frigid northern Minnesota! To add a note about bone marrow biopsies, I am so fortunate that my oncologist is excellent at doing them. Last time he had trouble pushing hard enough to get through the bone to the marrow, but it wasn't painful. My current issue is my ey

[CMLHope] Re: Bone Marrow Test

2007-02-08 Thread Zavie Miller
Hi Rusty, This is unaccepable. You need to find someone who does good BMBs. It is all a matter of technique. I know many patients who refuse to have BMBs done by certain doctors and for good reason. I have only ever had one bad one (pain, dry tap, etc) in my journey with CML. As patients, we rate

[CMLHope] Re: Tasigna hope?

2007-02-08 Thread Chrissy
I just remembered! Check out the website www.clinicaltrials.gov. I was told this is a very good website to check out what's going on where. Type 'CML' into the search engine, and then at the top of the page, go to the 'Maps' section. You can click on a country, or a state, and it will tell you

[CMLHope] Re: Bone Marrow Test

2007-02-08 Thread anjana
My husband always has dry taps, he has been on Gleevec now for 5 years. Our doctor says this happens to some Gleevec patients. So, like you, he used to have many proddings and it was exceedingly painful. The doctor has to do a bone marrow biopsy rather than an aspiration to get enough of the ma