Cold capping

HapB
HapB Member Posts: 527
in Breast Cancer #1

Did anyone here do cold capping? 

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  • 1surfermom
    1surfermom Member Posts: 396 Member
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    Cold capping

    I did not do the cold caps the first time around. This time I think I may try them if I am a candidate for chemo. My hospital  has a system that does the capping via computer controls, if I understand it correctly the old caps had to packed in dry ice and had to be changed often during a chemo infusion. This new system eliminates the changing and temperature can be controlled. I have really thin hair to begin with so I'm not sure that it would help me but since I know how tramatic it is to lose ones hair, I may just take the chance. Let me know if you decide to go with the cold caps. Love Surf

  • HapB
    HapB Member Posts: 527
    #3
    Cold capping

    surfermom, that sounds great. I spoke to 2 companies today and I would need to do the dry ice sytem, which is really a pain in the neck and probably impossible for me. There is no place around here that sells dry ice and I would need 50 pounds of it each week for 12 weeks. Yikes!  I sure wish my hospital did it. Which hospital do you go to? 

  • camul
    camul Member Posts: 2,537
    #4
    Surf,

    How are you doing and when will you find out if you have to do the ch mo again?  Still think of you.  Which hospital are

    you going to?  That I s the hard part now with hospice. Parts of it are wonderful, but woke up with a lump in my neck and still don't know if we can do anything to see what it is Without stopping hospice.  Just got it yesterday and tonight it has doubled.  Near the port, so is it lymph nodes or blood clot?  

    This is the one downfall with hospice is folllow Thru's.

    keep us posted.

    Carol

  • HapB
    HapB Member Posts: 527
    #5
    1surfermom said:

    Cold capping

    I did not do the cold caps the first time around. This time I think I may try them if I am a candidate for chemo. My hospital  has a system that does the capping via computer controls, if I understand it correctly the old caps had to packed in dry ice and had to be changed often during a chemo infusion. This new system eliminates the changing and temperature can be controlled. I have really thin hair to begin with so I'm not sure that it would help me but since I know how tramatic it is to lose ones hair, I may just take the chance. Let me know if you decide to go with the cold caps. Love Surf

    Surfermom

    that sounds like the dignicap or the paxman system which has been FDA approved and someof the best hospitals Have it now. Mind does not and I would have to do the dry ice. i feel so awful this morning with this port problem, that I can't dream of adding the dry ice packing to my days. I would do the dignicap in a heartbeat.

  • 1surfermom
    1surfermom Member Posts: 396 Member
    #6
    Carol how are you felling today?

    How is the lump on your neck today? Has it gone down or is it staying the same?I hope it isn't anything too serious. I am doing OK. I find out if I need chemo after my surgery which is scheduled for this Tuesday. I'm having surgery at St. Josephs in Orange.Thank you for thinking about me. That means the world to me. Love Surf

  • Beepositive
    Beepositive Member Posts: 259 Member
    #7
    Camul

    Continued Prayers and Hugs to you.

    BEE SmileSmile

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