Was looking for a section in the forum or the profile to introduce myself, but didn't find any - as you can sense I'm new in here..my apologies if this isn't the right section, please move my post.
My introduction in short: I'm in UK, 46 years old, was diagnosed 6 weeks ago in the accelerated phase, all classic symptoms present before diagnosis, tests show Philadelphia Chromosome positive.
As my white blood cells were obviously way too high, I received Hydroxycarbamide from the day of the first appointment on for a week - that was before the 100% confirmed diagnose 10 days later, because all symptoms were as "in the book".
When all other test were confirmed (usual bloods, bone marrow) ,10 days later, the Hydroxycarbamide had lowered the white blood cells already (nice for my spleen) but as all tests were confirming CML I stopped Hydroxycarbamide and got my first pack of Imatinib which I take since then.
The intermediate check after 10 days Imatinib showed a good response so there's a good chance / the hope that it works well - Fingers crossed.
So far I can't offer much help to others as I'm quite new to this; but if someone has questions regarding UK, NHS, but also boating & live aboard things I can try to help with my experience :)