Thank you for your response. Just to clarify, I had the SPEP test approximately 6 months before I showed any symptoms of bladder cancer. The test was ordered by a neurologist who was investigating why I was having multiple falls. The oncologist team is very good about explaining things and I do contact them through the patient portal. I haven't contacted the neurologist because now that I've been diagnosed with cancer, that's my major priority. I'm going to ask my oncologist if he thinks it's going to complicate chemo and go from there. When I got the test results, I happened to be speaking to a cousin who told me she and her daughter both have/had hypogammaglobulinemia, which really made me wonder, but as I said, when I was diagnosed with cancer, that became my main focus. I totally forgot about the hypogammaglobulinemia until now.

I've done only one cycle of the chemo (carboplatin and gemcitabine) and so far I'm tolerating symptoms well. Tomorrow we try again, if my neutrophils are back up.

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