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New to this board very scared and worried
Hi everyone.I am new to This board .I am formiluer to the Breast Cancer board.I have a long story.I am a Breast Cancer surviver for 4yrs. Now.I have had problems with my bowls for years.I have Colonoscopys every two years.This year I have had two since January.And a scope.I have had a lot of pain in my stomach recently and…
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CAM: TCM
Hi there, I am very interested in looking into Traditional Chinese Medicine to complement my mom's conventional treatment. She is currently having a good response to xeloda, which we are supplementing with a variety of things (diet, exercise, high dose Vitamin D, celebrex, juicing, flax, grapeseed, L-Glutamine, fish oil,…
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oh my fruity pooh
A fun filled nights Yesterday night I a woke about 1:30 and had terrible diarrea, I was in the bathroom with the door shut and my husband woke up coughing he yelled from the bedroom, !stop spraying that tropical fruit fabreeze it choking me, I yelled back I not spraying fabreeze I am sick. you, see I have been on this…
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Help!!!
My Friends, Has anyone had a bad reaction to Ambien? Hubby had second infusion of Erbitux on Monday, preceded by Neulasta and Claritan. He's hardly been sleeping at all, so given a script for Ambien(5 mg). He took 1 about 9PM Monday night, slept all day yesterday. Somehow he got up once last night and made it to the potty.…
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Foot pain
When I was in the hospital, the woman next to me mentioned foot pain along the outer portion of her foot and heel. She said hers was gone after her surgery and she wondered if that was a sign of cancer. I also had foot pain so bad over the past few years that sometimes I couldn't stand. I thought it was the width of my…
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Afraid of Recurrence
I was diagnosed with Stage 3c Colorectal Cancer in August 2011. Had surgery to remove about 12" of sigmoid colon and cancer in 5 lymph nodes. I completed six months of Folfox chemo a year ago. So far any follow up tests have shown no sign of any cancer. I am so thankful for that. I have a CT Scan next week. It has been six…
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Update on Jason....
Well, his 3rd chemo treatment is almost over, we take the pump back tomorrow. He is still doing very well, still no bad side effects. They had a very hard time w/ his port though. They couldn't get any blood from it, it would come but it was very slow & sluggish so they ended up getting his blood for the blood tests from…
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Where did our hope go?
Hi Everyone, I have been quiet lately, it's just been tough times. Dennis started his Folfiri with Avastin and is feeling pretty good but I think the chemo is having a effects other than tireness and nausea. Within a week of starting chemo he has screamed at me several times, told me that I am vendictive and selfish and…
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New Here as well
Hi Everyone, I just wanted to drop in and say hello! I have been reading this board for a few months now and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Michelle and I am 27 years old (from Ontario, Canada). On Feb 7/2013 my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer (spread to the liver). She is 56 years old, turning 57 in…
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Oxaliplatin?!
Hi, I am from the gyn boards. I have metastatic and recurrent cervical cancer. I had debulking in December to remove a lung nodule and a tumor on the abdominal wall that had attached to a small bowel loop which was also resected. Started chemo again in Feb. with carbo/gemzar. Counts tanked, Platlets to 30 and WBC 1. So we…
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Chemo
To today I'm going off chemo. Thats iIt. Done. Not responding to xeloda. I have no vusable nets. Going for diry, exercise, and TCM and acupuncture. I had acupuncture last week and had Chinese herb tea persc Cribed. Chemo has me tired, I have purple hands and feet. Done
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New Therapy Shows Promise - Hope This Hasn't Been Reported Before and Thus Isn't a Bore
Just read the article at the link below that I got notice of in an email. As I said in the title, I hope I'm not breaking "old news" and therefore you all don't find this boring. If so, I apologize in advance for wasting your time. On a side note, can anyone comprehensively explain the trials process while attaching a time…
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New to this board very scared and worried
Hi everyone.I am new to This board .I am formiluer to the Breast Cancer board.I have a long story.I am a Breast Cancer surviver for 4yrs. Now.I have had problems with my bowls for years.I have Colonoscopys every two years.This year I have had two since January.And a scope.I have had a lot of pain in my stomach recently and…
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Scheduled appt w/specialist for signet ring
Hi everyone, I have scheduled an appointment with Dr Hanna at the University of Maryland to evaluate my case. he is one of the Signet Ring specialists. We were trying to decide between MD Anderson and Maryland ... The logistical nightmare of flying someone in to be with the kids (we have no family local)and then having to…
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Brenda Bricco ... how are you?
The last time you posted you were having a difficult time. I am sure you have worked things out with Craig as I see he posted a very kind apology for his part in the confusion. Many here were concerned for you and offered support, especially with regard to the DNR bracelet you mentioned was given to your husband. Please…
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Pelvic pain after permanent colostomy surgery.
I am one year post op from a rectal resection with permanent colostomy and still dealing with pain when I sit. Gets pretty severe in the perineal area after a couple hours of driving. Anyone else having a problem? Suggestions?
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Update on my husband
For everyone who read my introduction post. My husband had been diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer at 35. They believed from the pet scan that it had spread to his spleen and various lymph nodes and possibly bones. I saw the pet scan on Monday when we were with the oncologist, it looked so bad. They explained how this…
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29 months and first hospital overnight
Well we've been chasing the beast for 29 months now and Monday morning Rog woke up in excruciating pain (first time very scary), and asked to go to the emergency room . In the emergency room they found that his magnesium was .8 and the pain was from inflammation and swelling in his colon. They decided to put him in the…
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Can bowel inflamation cause your cea to rise
Had a illiostomy reversal in jan 2013. Before surgery my cea was 2.1 in January . Now in April it is 5.7. Can inflamation for multiple trips to the bathroom cause the cea to rise? Has this happened to anyone??? I did have my cea go up during chemo and my onc said it was due to inflamation. Diarea from the chemo. Thank you…
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Caution - Palliative care information
I hope you do not mind me posting this from an article I have just read which some may find interesting. Quote: It's from a Palliative Care female nurse, who has spent the previous 50 years in long-term, aged and palliative care. After seeing 13-year-old boys turned into quads after diving accidents grow old in care and…
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Reversed illiostomy with inflamation of the bowels. Can that rise my cea?
HeHellos had a reversed illiostomy in January. My cea was 2.1 before the reversal in January. Now in April my cea is 5.7 . I heard inflamation of the bowels , which can rise your caeca. Anyone have this happen? All my CBC blood work was oerfect. I Di have my cea go quote when I was doing chemo while I still had the bag it…
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1st chemo
Y do i feel so bad and sick?! They said i would only have nausea and fatigue wirh this liver pump. im bout to crack.
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Therasphere next-brain mri clear again
Hello all: Have been busy with neutoponic fevers on and off all last week and then an episode of night sweats here and there between numerous nurse visits and finally urgent care to the er...feeling somewhat stronger. I needed augmenting for sinus pain but it wasn't an infection. Had a Ct last Fri., and brain MRI on Mon.,…
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First time here. Hello everyone
Hi this is my first time on this site and i'm still getting the hang of it. Two weeks ago my husband was diagnosed with colon cancer. Hes 35. At first they thought it was just a tumor in his colon and we had surgery scheduled for Tuesday. Last Friday we had a PET scan and we got a call from the doctor shortly after we got…
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Cancer Free 11 Years Today!
Brief History - Stage 3C - 10 positive lymph nodes. No recurrences to date. Just wanted to share with others starting this journey - keep the faith! Happy Spring! Lisa
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My new mantra
Decided this will be my new saying to live by: "I don't know how LONG I will live, but I do know HOW I will live" came up with that today while driving home from work after doing chemo in the morning. Tedd
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**UPDATE: April 10th is last day: Interesting Read - last day for free eBook
Due to overwhelming response (and a crashed server) it's available until 6 pm EST tonight, April 10th Free eBook via E-Patient Dave. The third book by e-Patient Dave, cancer beater, blogger, internationally known keynote speaker and advocate for patient engagement; co-founder and past co-chair of the Society for…
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how many chemo cycles for xelox
my dad's aproching his 5th XELOX cycle and i wanted to find out how many cycles if typical for this treatment? I have read some articles about folfox mentioning that benifit of 8 vs 12 cycles has not been established. found no such studies for XELOX His PET CT a few weeks back did not show any disease and CEA was down to…
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BLOOD CLOTS W/CHEMO ?
Hello All, I Havent posted here in a while but i pray all of you are doing well. Dad was dx with stage 4 CC in Jan. He started treatment in Feb and so far was going well...except his port was intaking but not withdrawing blood so it took lots of heprin and flushing to get it to start up. Well he started having pain in his…
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Is the night time the right time for 5-FU?
Is 5-Fu given via a pump to take home for 46 hours done so because during the night time liver enzymes that detoxify the liver are more abundant than during the day thus making the 5-Fu less toxic?- never thought about this......