Hi Again Cath,
I forgot another thing until I started to take my pills tonight. When I told my doctor about the numbness in my fingers, he prescribed a 2 mg dose of Warfarin a day and it seems to help. You might want to start earlier and maybe avoid any numbness.
Also, when I started Thalidomide the doctor said that the suggested start was one pill for 3 or 4 days then two for several days then three and so on. I got up to four pills pretty fast but it made me feel so bad that I quit. I called the doctor and he told me to listen to my instinct.(I like this guy. He says that medicine is a lot of times guess work and do what is best for you.) I started again and took one pill for two weeks then added another for a week and then three pills for a couple of weeks and finally got up to four and it worked a lot better. Hope you are feeling better. I try to keep a real positive attitude about everything including the MM and it makes me feel better, and I don’t worry about those that think I am being flippant. I have a disease that is incurable and is always (so far) fatal—sounds like LIFE to me. Illegitimi Non Carborundum. Very rough transition "Don't let the bastards grind you down".