This period lasted a few weeks. The shock of being told you have cancer can be overwhelming. It’s a lot to take in, so I had to totally focus on a positive outcome on this and live my life as normally as I could, knowing that I would need a lot of time away from work and that often I would feel ill.  Before I even had a chance to think, I’d started the treatment, and entered my first period in isolation. She was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) when she…, Filed Under: Patient Services & Insight Tagged With: acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, bone marrow transplant, Family, patients & families, Alex had a stem cell transplant to treat his Chronic Myloid Leukaemia in 2016. Here she talks about how she helps men who have had a stem cell transplant to overcome concerns about their sexual health in her clinic. In April 2018, it will be two years since his transplant.

This time, it would consist of chemotherapy, another period in isolation having another autologous transplant with extremely high-intensity chemotherapy, followed by yet more chemotherapy, radiotherapy…and a final period in isolation before having a bone marrow transplant.

Which sounds a bit ridiculous, but during his illness I just knuckled down and got on with it. He spoke to Billie in Patient Services about his experiences and preparing for transplant over the Christmas period. This was information overload for me. However, I wasn’t going to let it beat me; I blocked out the prospect of it returning, and lived life to the full when I was in remission, despite knowing that it’d definitely come back. Professor Cook, Suzanne, and the rest of the team, all of the nurses – they’re superb. Her decision to help others kick-started her date with destiny and set her on her path to meet her future husband to discuss being…, Filed Under: Donor Stories, Supporter Stories Tagged With: #BeALifesaver, anthony nolan, bone marrow donation, bone marrow donors, bone marrow register, donors, real stories, stem cell donation, stem cell donor, stem cell register, Journalist, writer and broadcaster Carl Anka blogs honestly about his fears and concerns around donating and how he overcame them to do an ‘amazing’ and ‘selfless’ act. My friend was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, and a lot of my friends and I signed up in support.

(And of course, to Anthony Nolan, thanks for having the system in place which helped me. Afterwards you are left to process all the memories. We are even encouraged to look after them by drinking “pro-biotic” products that we are told will aid our digestion. This limbo period, between the diagnosis and starting treatment again, was particularly stressful.

Filed Under: Donor Stories, Scientific Research Tagged With: bone marrow donation, bone marrow donors, donor, odds of donating stem cells, stem cell donation. That was tough; high-intensity chemotherapy can be very demanding and it makes you very sick. I trust that this is merely the process he has to go through and as you have shown, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/spark/anthony-nolan/charity-history Your email address will not be published. I was then told that chemotherapy alone wouldn’t be a curative procedure; I’d need to have an autologous transplant (using my own stem cells) for now, but it would be another couple of years before the disease would return – meaning that I’d require even more treatment. I was weak and not allowed to return to work for a while, and I had quite a few scares in the recovery process that thankfully turned out to be quite minor problems. Thanks for saving my life!

I would like to say a massive thanks to my donor, whoever you may be. I had a lot going on in my life, working full-time with long hours. Can you tell me a little bit about Jasmine? Physically you have the side effects of the drugs, feeling ill and weak all the time, and mentally it’s difficult when you’re in isolation for weeks on end, especially when you’re a sociable outgoing person. At the moment, my partner is in the other room, having been newly diagnosed with MM and having completed his first chemo cycle of 6. In January 2011, I was told that the cancer had returned and that it would likely be a few months before I required a new regime of treatment. I have also taken part in numerous competitions since and collecting more medals. Can you tell me what happened when you first became unwell? Preparing for transplant  Tell me about when you were diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia I was first diagnosed in summer 2012.

Every day, Anthony Nolan matches incredible individuals willing to donate their stem cells or bone marrow … Jamie at the finish of the Leeds Half Marathon, Finally, in February 2013, I was told that I’d be starting treatment imminently….

I’d been feeling unwell at…, Filed Under: Patient Services & Insight, Uncategorized Tagged With: anthony nolan, bone marrow transplant, GvHD, leukaemia, patient stories, patients, post transplant, real stories, recovery tips, stem cell transplant, A healthy gut We have known for a long time that our digestive system is home to billions of tiny microbes that help us digest our food properly. A support structure of friends and family will help and the experts will help – don’t keep it to yourself! He spoke to Billie in Patient Services about his recovery and how it has affected him and his family.

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The experience is exhausting, mentally and physically.