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Honoring cancer survivorship: Share your voice this May May 19 7:11am | By Liz Waugh, Patient Educator (@lizwaugh)Comment receiving replies
Hi @lorishoe Wow, Congratulations on your 19th year post BMT! This is such an encouraging post to those of us with more recent BMTs. I’m coming up on 7 years the end of June for AML. (I was 65 at the time). Not a newbie but still love to hear stories of long time survivors!
So thank you for sharing your story about ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic leukemia) and your subsequent bone marrow transplant. Nineteen years ago it was still a relatively new procedure. Cutting edge of science! Did you have any issues with GVHD?
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@loribmt yes I had GVHD in my stomach and was on high dose steroid for a while. The steroids made me diabetic and I had to track my blood sugar and give myself insulin shots. Once I tapered off the steroids my blood levels returned to normal. I think I was on the steroids for maybe a couple of months? time frames are fuzzy for me to remember