Interactive Health Communication for longer, better lives.

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Multiple Myeloma Support: Welcome to beating-myeloma.org

A non-traditional approach to healing multiple myeloma

Beating-myeloma.org was founded by multiple myeloma survivor David Emerson and is dedicated to helping everyone faced with myeloma manage their health and live longer, better lives. We are a 501c3 tax exempt nonprofit organization and do not sell or benefit from the sale of any treatment.

We invite you to:

Share

We provide an interactive forum for sharing information, advice, and a full spectrum of approaches to confronting disease. Visit the forum and read recent posts, or perform a search to bring up posts on the topic of your choice.

In our patient studies section patients enter information about their chosen treatment. Results and dosages are compared. Our current patient study focuses on curcumin.

Learn

Beating-myeloma.org is built from the story and unique perspective of our founder David Emerson. Each section of our site contains David’s experiences and recommendations. Learn about therapies, side effects, diagnosis, and much more by navigating through the menu to the left of this page.

Learn from other multiple myeloma survivors and caregivers on the forum/listerv. Receive up to date information about therapies, side effects, diagnosis, and other issues by subscribing to one or more of the S.D.I's, our e-newsletters.

Search

Are you interested in a specific topic or therapy? We provide a thorough search engine that will scour our site for the most up to date, relevant information. Go to our search page, or type your inquiry in the box at the top left hand corner of this page.

Join

Our site is built around our membership. Members can post to our forum, request monthly newsletters from David, and subscribe to a daily digest of the forum to be delivered to their email inboxes. Learn more about becoming a member (it’s free).

 

Earl Kielley Survivor Story

Fast forward. On approximately January 3, 2003, I had a physical exam, my doctor told me to come back to see him quickly because my PSA was 4.6 (that is an atypical reading for a prostate). He said he wanted to do a biopsy. He did so and found pre cancer cells in my prostate. The condition is called high grade PIN.....

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Recent Forum Posts

rvance wrote on May 01 2008,

Please disregaurd the instructions to change your subscriptions in the above post.

We have upgraded the site and made some changes and the above instructions on how to change your subscription preferences are no longer vali ...

taniak wrote on May 07 2008,

I actually have a question on both. I was recently diagnosed and have started both supplements. I was taking the Curumin in the capsule form along with a capsule of flaxseed oil. Along with that I've been taking 300mg of COQ10 a day. H ...

What is Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)?

Below are examples of SDI's, emails sent to beating-myeloma.org members each month or so that contain current, topical and relevant information on the subjects that you request when you sign up as a member- Therapies, Issues, Side Effects, Diagnosis and General myeloma issues. Register now, it's FREE!
Side Effects SDI - Volume 1 Issue 7
This month's side effects sdi focus' on a topic near and dear to my heart-steroid-induced cataracts.  If steroids are, were or are going to be a component of your therapy plan, please read this sdi. Since most of us are more worried about our mm, we don ...
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General SDI - Volume 1 Issue 7
This month's myeloma sdi speaks to the issue of support groups and what survivors look for.1) Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said they would be interested in attending a group. Although Sherman said that this ³doesn¹t mean they would necessarily v ...
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Diagnosis SDI - Volume 2 Issue 2
Since 8 of the Curcumin Patient Study submissions are either MGUS or SMM these two myeloma diagnosis have taken on greater importance to the beating-myeloma.org efforts.The article linked below talks about the possibility of each diagnosis progressing to m ...
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Therapies SDI - Volume 1 Issue 3
The topic for this therapies SDI is how we myeloma survivors approach our health in general. The mission of the Galen Foundation is to help people manage their health. It seems logical, then, to examine how we should do this.Beating Myeloma will soon " ...
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