Myelodysplastic Syndrome Community
WELCOME TO THE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME COMMUNITY: This Patient-To-Patient Community is for discussions relating to Causes, Clinical Trials, Complications, Diagnosis, Living With Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Prognosis, Questions to Ask Your Doctor and Treatment Options.
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I have never actually posted on this site but have read on it and many other sites. I am 18 years old and in November my beloved grandmot...
Hello everyone,
My loving, wonderful, kind hearted, young father is critical in the ICU right now. Back story: My dad never gets sick or...
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My mother was recently diagnosed with anemia and her doctor thinks she may have Myelodysplastic Syndrome and will start her on Procit soo...
My Mom has been diagnosed with MDS at a younger age than what has normally been the case for MDS. So, I started a website to help our fa...
I am 30 and just recently diagnosised with MDS. I have WBC at 1.7; hypocellular bone marrow and no iron in my bone marrow. I go to Moff...
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Hi! I am new to this site but not new to MDS, I have been on decitabine treatments for 6 months, my blasts are at about 5% they were clos...
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I have just been diagnosed with MDS with RCMD and I am currently at low risk for progression to AML. I am 72 years old and lead a fairly...
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My wife has MDS. She primarily suffers from chronic leukopenia due to neutropenia. We are moving to an area that only has well water. ...
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Hi, I'm fourteen years old and I lead a decently active lifestyle. About a year ago, I developed a strange sort of 'skin tag' (or what I ...
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My 15 year old nephew has MDS and is currently on dialysis as well as antifungal medicine. He is also getting UV treatment to kill any ba...
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I'm searching for support groups.
I need to talk with others about their treatments, what they have tries as far as
alternative treatme...
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I have MDS, not receiving any treatment at this time. I'm in a "wait and watch" phase right now. However, I am dealing with a lot of fati...
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I have the blood disease Myelodysplasia, which in my case manifests itself by lowering my platelets and white blood cells. I am reluctant...
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My father aged 69 is suffering from shortage of Hemoglobin, RBC and WBC since May 2011 it was identified from Bone marrow aspiration at...
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Hi,
I've diagnosed with Myelodysplatic Syndrome (MDS) and ITP back in 2006.
Since then I've also had a splenectomy and chemo treatmen...
Let me start with the following:
a.) I am a bit of hypochondriac that being said,
b.) 3 months ago I ran in a 10KM race. 2KM from...
My mother has been diagnosed with sever anemia.
Iron, Vit B12, Folate levels are all normal. Doctors are waiting on results of a Bone Ma...
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My wife has MDS. She is 41 yrs old, and has been battling MDS for about 20 years. Recently, she was having bladder problems and had to ...
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