RE: [CMLHope] My Update anyone had relapse after 5 years on tkis?

2015-01-15 Thread Pete Pabon
jeanie, Who is your doctor at Moffitt Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:32:26 -0800 From: rbhuffm...@gmail.com To: cmlhope@googlegroups.com CC: icandoall...@aol.com Subject: Re: [CMLHope] My Update anyone had relapse after 5 years on tkis? I am my own advocate, I do have two ONCs. One is at a new r

Re: [CMLHope] My Update anyone had relapse after 5 years on tkis?

2015-01-15 Thread Richard H
Thanks for your service. The only reason I use the VA is to get my medicine. Seeing I am a cancer patient I am forced to see an Oncologist get them to sing the prescription. Without the VA I could not afford the Health Insurance copay until I could get assistance from the Drug company. He w

Re: [CMLHope] Hi all finally going in for an endoscopy next week.

2015-01-15 Thread bkbarney via CMLHope
good luck on your BMB tomorrow Jeannie. I will be thinking of you. AS for results of endoscopies, I had a small stomach ulcer..the result of taking NSAIDS on an empty stomach... to battle a broken hand. it was years ago but Iearned my lesson. I never take any pain med without food. thinking

Re: [CMLHope] Re: blue palate

2015-01-15 Thread 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope
Wanted to add that you are the first one that went through "Getting off Gleevec" trial that I have heard off. Thanks so much for that!!! Great news!!! Hang in there!! Jeanie🐟🐟 Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 14, 2015, at 2:19 AM, Rien Jonkers wrote: > > Thank you Peter, for your quick reply. I

Re: [CMLHope] blue palate

2015-01-15 Thread 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope
Hi Rien In my 11 years on tki's nothing surprises me anymore!!! I recently suffered from terrible jaw and ear pain. It finally went away but my blood counts went way up. Have you bruise your mouth? Has this been going on for a long time? Sometimes a wait and see might work. Keep a close check o

Re: [CMLHope] Hi all finally going in for an endoscopy next week.

2015-01-15 Thread Marty Gartenberg
Hi Jeanie, I wish you good luck with your BMA. I'm praying for the best. 18's, Marty On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:34 PM, 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope < cmlhope@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hi all and thanks so much for the updates in endoscopy. > Did anyone have anything discovered during the procedu

Re: [CMLHope] My Update anyone had relapse after 5 years on tkis?

2015-01-15 Thread Marty Gartenberg
Hi again Greenie, Like you said, don't look back but only forward. By the way, I am an animal lover whether it be dogs, cats, birds or fish. I am glad to hear that you threw back those fish where they belong. 18's, Marty On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Myvety2k via CMLHope < cmlhope@googlegr

Re: [CMLHope] My Update anyone had relapse after 5 years on tkis?

2015-01-15 Thread Myvety2k via CMLHope
Marty, by the way my first Doctor at Northwestern, Dr. Tallman worked with Doctor Druker. He left their and went to Chicago. Now he's at Cornell University. My Doctor now in Chicago is the same one that Susan has, Dr. Altman. greenie In a message dated 1/15/2015 1:09:00 P.M. Eastern

Re: [CMLHope] My Update anyone had relapse after 5 years on tkis?

2015-01-15 Thread Myvety2k via CMLHope
Marty, My aunt left me some stock and money and one of the stocks was Novartis and my stock guy told me to sell it. That was before Gleevec was in any kind of study. Because of him I also lost $43,000.00 and I pulled my money out and fired him. If I, would have, could of. Of course I wish

Re: [CMLHope] Hi all finally going in for an endoscopy next week.

2015-01-15 Thread 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope
Hi all and thanks so much for the updates in endoscopy. Did anyone have anything discovered during the procedure? I have had an ongoing pain in my right side. I am hoping they can solve the mystery. Getting the Bma early in the morning. No food or drink after midnight. Sure will miss my m

Re: [CMLHope] Hi all finally going in for an endoscopy next week.

2015-01-15 Thread sherri swanson
Hi Jeanie, Yup, I've had them too. I've had 15 of them to exact. For me they were painless. I had general anaesthesia and woke up as they were taking me to recovery. I have a lot of trouble with anaesthesia, so me waking up while they were taking me to recovery was no big surprise. I once woke up

Re: [CMLHope] My Update anyone had relapse after 5 years on tkis?

2015-01-15 Thread Marty Gartenberg
Hi Greenie, First, where in Florida do you live? I am on the east coast, Boynton Beach. If we are not to far maybe we can do lunch one of these days. If my memory serves me right I think that you may be in Ft Meyers??? If so then I guess that lunch is out of the question... About STI571. Do you k

[CMLHope] Re: blue palate

2015-01-15 Thread Rien Jonkers
Thank you Peter, for your quick reply. I was very and still am a bit worried, I got cancer already there times (colon, skin and leucemia) and do not like very much the idea of getting snotter one! Your experience makes me hope that probably my strange blue/violet spot will be something as you descr

Re: [CMLHope] My Update anyone had relapse after 5 years on tkis?

2015-01-15 Thread Tim Cannon
On Wednesday, January 14, 2015, Richard H wrote: > I am my own advocate, I do have two ONCs. One is at a new regional cancer > center and i am completing 12 years of treatment with. The other is with > the VA. They are assigning me underqualified Drs. that should not be > trying to treat me, b

Re: [CMLHope] My Update anyone had relapse after 5 years on tkis?

2015-01-15 Thread Myvety2k via CMLHope
Thank you Marty, Everything you wrote is so true about Gleevec and CML. It's unfortunate that greed and money has to be in the equations in the final outcome. After Interferon that almost killed me all that was left was Hydrea. So when Doctor Tallman called me and wanted be in his study

Re: [CMLHope] My Update anyone had relapse after 5 years on tkis?

2015-01-15 Thread Marty Gartenberg
Hi Greenie, So you have been on Gleevec for 15 years. That is something good to know because what would you have done without Gleevec? This drug is responsible for saving countless lives. Thank GOD it is here or you wouldn't be here right now. If it weren't for dialysis neither would I be here ri

Re: [CMLHope] Facing misfortune....

2015-01-15 Thread ANGELYN ESDERS
A Fantastic message from your friendHave a great day, Marty!A.   From: Marty Gartenberg To: cmlhope@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 5:18 AM Subject: Re: [CMLHope] Facing misfortune Hi Angie, Very well said.  It reminds me of when I had my bone marrow transpla

Re: [CMLHope] My Update anyone had relapse after 5 years on tkis?

2015-01-15 Thread Shannon L
Hi Greenie 15 yrs on glivec, i will be 14yrs this yr (started roughly 3 yrs after dx) Shannon On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 12:11:08 AM UTC+11, greenie wrote: > > Jeanie, as of Jan. 10th I will have been on Gleevec for 15 years. > Starting to retain fluid around my ankles a little but that

Re: [CMLHope] Facing misfortune....

2015-01-15 Thread Marty Gartenberg
Hi Angie, Very well said. It reminds me of when I had my bone marrow transplant and had to live in a plastic bubble in the hospital for many months. A friend of mine came to see me and even though he couldn't come into the bubble he pasted this on the outside of that bubble. Any time that I had a

Re: [CMLHope] My Update anyone had relapse after 5 years on tkis?

2015-01-15 Thread Marty Gartenberg
Richard, I am a vet and I would never go to the VA for treatment even for a hang nail, because I have had previous dealings with them. They were recently in the news for everything that they were not doing for most of us vets. When someone has CML or any other major disease then most of the doctor