Hello everyone. I'm Alan and 58 years old. I'm from South Carolina (the Charlotte area). I was officially diagnosed a week and a half ago. I have a consult tomorrow with Rheumatology. Then they are going to order (from what I understand) Rituxan. I don't have any renal involvement. My biggest challenge is shortness of breath doing day to day normal activities. Carrying a case of water upstairs requires about a 3 minute recovery. Stuffy knows and coughing are the other two issues. The really frustrating part for me is before this, I was extremely healthy.

Any ideas what I can expect when I start treatments? I understand if I go anywhere, I will have to where a mask and be extremely careful because I my immune system will be so compromised. Luckily, I work from home and generally don't go anywhere. But I do have two beautiful granddaughters I would like to see on occasion.

I'm happy to have found this group, not so happy to be a part of it. No offense. ha ha.