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Peripheral neuropathy - Anyone had a Fat Pad biopsy?

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What is MGUS and if you don't mind what we're your symptoms into your dx and into doing your testing? Thank you.

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minnmitzi | @minnmitzi | 1 day ago

MGUS is monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance.
When seeing a neurologist at Mayo for Restless Leg Syndrome, blood work showed I had abnormal gamma globulin levels (blood proteins), so a full work up for multiple myeloma was done. The Fat Pad test was one of those tests. It turned out that I do not have active multiple myeloma. But I will continue to have blood work done once a year to monitor these since there is a low possibility that some day it could develop into multiple myeloma. Since it’s uncertain at this time what, if anything, could eventually develop from it, they simply call it monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance or MGUS.

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