Thank you for the reply. My mom died of congestive heart failure so I must admit, my mind goes there. The doctors here seem content enough to do a chest x-ray (I've had two four years apart) and say everything looks fine. I am inclined to just accept that as I am too busy to be sick. But when I wake up gasping at night, I start to question. After 5 years of mentioning chest pain, my GP did finally order a ct chest scan. It came back with an enlarged ascending aorta to which she replied 'well it's not an aneurysm yet, we'll do an echo next year'. No mention of it again. Calcified granulomas and lymph nodes in the lungs to which she replied, 'everyone has those'. I noticed a 'calcified mass on the kidney' but since she did not mention that, I assumed it too is common. I do accept that my inclination to just accept that "it's nothing" and move on is contributing to the lack of diagnosis. But then I wind up on a discussion board whining and looking for answers :). I will look up Multiple Myeloma and see the symptoms--thank you. 🙂