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Old 02-20-2008, 12:04 AM
NancyKay NancyKay is offline
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Thanks for the welcome and suggestions. About 5 years ago I had a bone marrow biopsy to make sure I didn't have any signs of Waldenstroms macroglobulinemia (which my Uncle died of in his late 40's). So far, so good.


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Originally Posted by glenntaj View Post
You're quite correct in that there are not too many people out there who have that type of neuropathy, although I think there may have been a few fluttering around our neuropathy forum here from tiem to time, which I highly recommend you visit (if you haven't already):



There's certainly a wealth of information there that is applicable to any autoimmune neuropathy--and a lot of empathy besides.

BTW, make sure they also monitor you for rogue monoclonal antibodies, which are often associated with anti-MAG--these are usually ascertainable through immunofixation electrophoresis. The reason, unfortunately, these need to be watched is they can be the precursor of certain types of blood disorders:



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