On Tuesday 31 October, I had an appointment in the haematology clinic at the Midlands Regional Hospital at Tullamore with Dr Crotty. This appointment was a follow up on bloods having been taken when I was in the hospital back in June as my haemoglobin at the time was very low. Since then, the haemoglobin levels have come back up to approaching normal although for a dialysis patient, they are a little too high.
However, there was another diagnosis made following the blood results taken at the time. It turns out that I now have MGUS. There will be six-monthly reviews for a while, but nothing particular is thought to be happening.
MGUS stands for
monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance. It is a non-cancerous condition where the body makes an abnormal protein, called a paraprotein. Although MGUS is not a cancer, people with it have a slightly higher risk of developing: myeloma (a cancer of blood cells called plasma cells)
https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/worried-about-cancer/pre-cancerous-and-genetic-conditions/mgus#:~:text=MGUS%20stands%20for%20monoclonal%20gammopathy,blood%20cells%20called%20plasma%20cells)
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