I have never considered no treatment. I am 67 years old and have high risk MM and what I did decide is for now to skip chemo & Stem cell transplant. Opting for treatments only see how far it takes me. Right now I am responding real well to treatment. So taking it 1 treatment at a time. I would think no treatment would be very risky, since numbers are usually very elevated when they recommend treatment. Bringing the numbers down and maybe then stopping treatment until number go up again would probably be a better option. I can't begin to tell you how much better I feel with treatment. I have no symptoms or side effects from the medicine. Good luck on your journey with your husband.

Thank you so much Sally. I think he will be okay with the treatment after hearing others talk about the pros and cons. Just being diagnosed recently has put him in a little shock. And thanks to you and others responding, he is able to see that the treatment can prolong his life and give his a better quality of life.

Vanessa, without treatment your husband's overall survival may not be long. The clonal cancerous plasma cells will override all other immunity cells and WBC, platelets etc in his bone marrow and he won't be able to stave off infections especially pneumonia.
Talk to your health team. Go to healthtree.org under education and learn about MM.

Thank you for telling me this. I will share with my husband!