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High blood pressure...to the 200s...is this somethin that you get due to Avastin or any of your chem
Hello..just want to ask you guys if your blood pressure went really high after the 1st treatment...my mom had her 2nd chemo today, the docs said her blood pressure is really really high so they recommended a higher of her blood pressure med of atenolol to 50mg from 25mg...i was just curious since i know if its over 200/100…
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Next week is surgery.
Hey I have not been posting trying to get things at home set up. I have 3 children 17,10,and 8 and I almost forgot 36 lol, that's my husband he has been wonderful and will have his hands full will us. I am getting nervous and try to stay calm and not worry, but for me it's hard. The surgery is to fix another drs. mess up.…
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are we ready for #5
ok everybody that is about to get treatment #5 lets just suck it up and get er done.i have been on my pre-chemo depression today.it always happens the day before.i just start crying out of the blue.i go tomarrow for this and i know others will be with me,lets just hang on to buzzards rope and we will be fine good luck and…
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Religion
Every year our town throws a festival. We call it spring fling and it lasts all weekend. It started out small. Some of us local restaurant and bar owners got together and sold some food and beer on the street. We had local musicians perform and local artists display their works. The first few years were great. Now things…
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Quick thought
After each of my surgeries the drs have given me insulin to keep my blood sugar low to improve healing. I really don't remember my by glucose level being high but they wanted to keep it way down. Now I know cancer uses glucose in very high concentrations. I imagine lowering your glucose level makes it harder for cancer to…
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May 5, 2005....last treatment was a bowel resection...NED for 4 years!!!!!!
I'm doing the naked happy dance...all weekend....YEA!!!! (And, I guess 5 years in November from diagnosis....) Hugs, Kathi
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Stage IV colon cancer
My husband found out he has stage 4 colon cancer. He had surgery to remove it from his colon in November. He is on his fourth Chemo treatment and seems to be doing well. It is in his liver ( Onc. says extensive ) and little flecks in both lungs and a small spot on the adreanal glad. Everything I have seen on this site is…
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Hans update #5
I am REALLY naked happy dancing!!! Hans is sooooooo much better!!! YEA!!! His edema is gone, the pain in his belly is better...and he even LOOKS the part of a distinguished gentleman!!! (I cut his hair and beard...scary!!!). He still has some memory/function loss, but no worse than ME and my chemo brain!!! Thank you, thank…
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FRIDAY RIDDLE ANSWER
There is NO shame in being able to provide the correct answer each week. If you got it you got it :) RIDDLE: Mr. and Mrs. Smith were walking home from the shipping mall with their purchases when Mr. Smith began to complain that his load was too heavy. Mrs. Smith turned to her husband and said "I don't know what you're…
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Stage IV
I was told yesterday that cancer has spread to liver.This is very upsetting to my wife and children... me I try to stay positive, focused and faithful. But it is tough when your Doc tells you that without treatment the odds and averages are that you may not live a year. Well I may be odd but I am not average! I feel like…
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Have a Colostomy or Ileostomy Question
I am very new to my ileostomy and today when I was talking to someone that I haven't seen since last summer, "Bella" started singing. They didn't know that I had cancer or an ileostomy. What do you all do when this happens. I was embarrassed. I know I should find the humor in this, but right now I can't. Is there some…
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How many scans have you had? Do you know???
Every time i get another scan done, the techs always ask me if this is my first...whatever. All i ever say is "no". I've had dozens of scans, and i've tried to remember each one. I used to keep track of the CT scans, and now, i have no idea how many i've had. I've had probably a dozen MRI of various parts of the body…
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Menstrual problems
I had a fairly large malignant tumor in my sigmoid colon and had it removed in March of 2007. Nine out of the twelve lymph nodes removed showed cancer. I had six rounds of folfox and became "allergic" to the Oxalaplatin and finished up with six rounds of Xeloda. In March of 2008 a CAT scan showed metastases to my liver. I…
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Remove me as member
Since I've been instructed that I am not to share my faith, Bible verses etc., on this site except by pm 'if you connect with someone on the board that shares your beliefs', I am requesting my membership be removed.
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Does anyone juice with a colostomy?
I had my colostomy surgery March 10 and liver resection April 9. I am wanting to juice again but I don't know what it will do to the bowels? I am still trying to figure out what constipates and what gives me stomach cramps so I was just trying to see what others did with the colostomy.
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Sobering discussion
Interesting discussion after my consultation. Background for those new. Stage 4 colon surgery 9/06, chemo (folfox w/ erbitux) liver resection 2/07, follow up chemo (folfox w/ avastin )until 6/07. 2 lung mets showed up in 11 / 07 and those were resected. Clean scans until 3/09 with a new lung met, resection 4/09. I have now…
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Has anyone ever quit before 12?
Just wondering if anyone has ever quit treatments before they were to 12? When we saw the dr. this week he mentioned "bet you are wondering why 12". He said it's a French thing. Just a number. NOW, we are wondering did he mean to say "you can quit now if you want to". Husband has stage III, one lymph node out of 15…
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symptoms
Hello-I am a 28 year old healthy female that has recently started having major GI issues. I have been to 5 doctors in the past 2 months and no one is taking me seriously. I started having slight bright red rectal bleeding on the stool in January, occassionally. I just opted to watch it after OBGYN said it was probably…
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Buzzard Are You Out There????
Hey I just wanted to let you know I am done with my treatments and my CEA test came back good......Thank You soooo very much for all of the advice, compassion and laughs you have given me through your posts...You and alot of other people here have given me the strengh and will to carry on and I can't thank you enough..You…
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11 down, 1 to go!
Well, guys, I'm almost there! This one went well, nothing too bad or out of the ordinary. Onc says he doesn't need to see me the last time, but if my tongue and mouth act like they did last time and the hands, I need to call and he will discontinue the oxy. However, the nurse said that if I think I can take it, not to - so…
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Good news on the thyroid front, I think
I finally had my thyroid biopsied today. The doctor says the cancer is fully contained in the left lobe of the thyroid. So i will get to keep the right lobe and not have to take a hormone supplement the rest of my life. Some bad news is that the tumors (two tumors have grown into one large one) are larger than previously…
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Heads Up! national Cancer Survivors Day is coming!
It's just May 1, but I thought I'd alert you all a bit early to National Cancer Survivors Day, June 7. A friend of mine in radio who keeps track of these things sent it to me today. Not sure how I'll celebrate it, maybe just a prayer to ask that a cure be found and that all of us who have or have had the big C, will be…
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Would you be scared?
Hi all! I was wondering, I just saw my onc on Monday, who said the big question was if I should be kept on Avastin. As you know, I just had a colon perforation at the end of March, and had to have emergency surgery and a colostomy done, my bowels were going into my belly...the surgery went well, and the recovery was well…
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FRIDAY RIDDLE
RIDDLE: Mr. and Mrs. Smith were walking home from the shipping mall with their purchases when Mr. Smith began to complain that his load was too heavy. Mrs. Smith turned to her husband and said "I don't know what you're complaining about because if you gave me one of your parcels I would have twice as many as you and if I…
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Colon Cancer
Hello: I have just had surgery on March 13 with a diagnosis of metastatic colon cancer. I find out more tomorrow about my future chemo treatments and some of the rest of the pathology report. I am nervous about the final diagnosis but hope that it is a treatable cancer. My husband and I had a visit a oncologist that did…
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lab questions
Hi Everyone, **** goes in for his 4th Folfox treatment tomorrow. He had blood lab work done today and we have a few questions. His white blood cell count has been continually falling and today it was 3.5K/ul slightly in the low range. What number do most people get or need a boost? The doc didn't say anything about it this…
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Seriously good night!
I've had some unusual things happen to me since treatment began. After my 1st liver resection in July 08 I was kept in a drug induced coma for several days. The surgery lasted 13.5 hours and was very extensive. The anesthesiologist kept me sedated, even though the surgeon wanted to wake me. Well, I had the worst care known…
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Elevated Liver Enzymes Post Treatment
Hello everyone. Wanted to know if anyone's liver enzymes were still high after completion of treatment. I had 12 rounds of oxyiplatin, 5-Fu, and Leucovorin. I have had blood test, liver test, and CT scans and thus far nothing has given the reason why. Would like to know your thoughts. Thanks, Valerie
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CRY ME A RIVER!
F'ing Drama Queens and Kings, Listen believers and non believers. Personally I love the drama you guys have going on. Last time I checked, cancer doesn't give a hoot who or what you believe. If you slip up your **** is grass. Now I've been reading these posts about what should and shouldn't be said or allowed to be said,…
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Thanks for all the support!!!!
I jusy wasnt to thank everyone for their advice and support. This is like going through hell, and at times get scared but I have made it! On Jan. 31, 2010, I will be Cancer Free, I hope. I am getting things at home done so I have not been on much. But All of you are in my prayers. I belong to a Methodist church, and the…