Hi. I'm 43 and was diagnosed with bence-jones light chain mm March 2, 2007. I just completed four rounds of chemo (Doxil/Velcade/Dex) and achieved a pretty good remission from the chemo. I've got the mm with the chromosomal 13 damage and several translocations. I was stage 3b when diagnosed (kidneys were shutting down) but my only real symptoms were fatigue and tons of protein in my urine. My b2m was 8.9. Now they can't detect any protein leakage at all. So far so good. I'm going into Moffitt on June 20th for an allo transplant (stem cells from my sister) and I was hoping to connect with anyone who might have experienced this similar situation. I've been told that I'll be pretty much out of it for as long as a year but I just have a really hard time believing that. The only thing I've felt so far is somewhat tired but I'm still working full time and honestly I think I feel better than I did a year ago when I had no clue as to why I was tired all the time (husband thought it was in my head...boy was he wrong :-). And it seems that only 70+ year olds are the ones with any experience in this area...and I'm not 70!!! It sure would be nice to connect with someone...anyone?!