What symptoms are likely/possible?
Many people have no obvious symptoms when they are diagnosed and the process of accepting the diagnosis can be difficult. Others experience the tiredness, diarrhea and other symptoms and put it down to stress, menopause or old age. In the early stages the symptoms are not usually strongly obvious. Later they may include: painful abdomen (from enlarged spleen and liver), fluid retention in the abdomen; disturbances in vision (like spots or blurring of the eyes); joint pain; bone pain (from marrow expanding into the long bones; boils orother skin eruptions (like blood blisters just under the skin).
