Your imagination helps fight Multiple Myeloma!

Take heart from the wonders of modern medicine!

You have a much better chance to win the battle against Multiple Myeloma than was possible just a few years ago.

Your doctor will use the latest proven methods and medicines to try and make you well in the shortest possible time.

You can help your doctor in this task even if you are not a medical person yourself. You can also help others with Multiple Myeloma live better with pain.

Multiple Myeloma often results in bone pain that can be rather severe. This is due to local inflammation and growth of some affected bones. It can also happen because Multiple Myeloma causes calcium to come out of bones, making them weak and brittle.

Rest assured that your doctor will do everything possible to reverse or arrest the course of the disease. What can you do in the meantime?

Help yourself and others to manage the pain!

Pain is a subjective manner. The doctor must go by your reports-he or she has no independent way of being sure of how bad your pain is. The doctor will prescribe pain killers to help you cope with the pain. Most pain killers have side-effects that must be taken in to consideration when a prescription is prepared.

Help your doctor by using imagery and relaxation methods to manage your pain. These methods will help the pain killers your doctor prescribes, do more for you. It will help you live better with the pain until your doctor succeeds in making you well again.

Please post your pain-management experiences with imagery and relaxation methods here or ask for sources where you can learn more about these methods. You can also email in confidence to drsbanerji@gmail.com