CT results

Dear Nancy
Well that's good news about the spots being smaller..YEAH!!, but I sure wish they could figure out your source of pain and discomfort...hows your CA-125? what regime are you on now? When will they decide? I hate to read about you being in pain...Have they given you anything for the pain? Hang in there....it sounds like the taxol has been doing the trick and thats a GREAT thing!! Fondly, Fang Fish

Lisa13Q said:

Dear Nancy
Well that's good news about the spots being smaller..YEAH!!, but I sure wish they could figure out your source of pain and discomfort...hows your CA-125? what regime are you on now? When will they decide? I hate to read about you being in pain...Have they given you anything for the pain? Hang in there....it sounds like the taxol has been doing the trick and thats a GREAT thing!! Fondly, Fang Fish

intestinal troubles
Nancy

Good news about making progress! I wish you felt more like celebrating the good news.

Your symptoms could be from an intestinal infection. You might ask your physician to run some stool cultures (usually three are necessary). Diarrhea and intestinal pain could signal C. diff. unless you are so constipated that you are having loose stool "overflow."

The pain I had from a C. diff. infection was severe and colicky. All I could do was lay on the sofa with a heating pad on my belly for months until the infection was discovered.

If you had an intestinal infection, it could cause poor digestion of protein--even if you were eating enough protein. Protein deficiency makes ascites worse.

So sorry that you are in such pain. Don't you wish your doctor could live in your body for a week? I don't say that to be mean--just that I don't think doctors realize what we go through.

djinco said:

Sorry to read of your pain.
Dear Nancy,

I am sorry to hear of the severe discomfort your are experiencing. I will pray for you and hope that your health will soon improve. I have also been experiencing some nausea and discomfort recently. I called my GYN/ONC office today to tell the nurses of my symptoms and they asked me to come in for a CA-125 and a follow up appt. on Tuesday, 4/26/2011. I was scheduled to go in May but now I go this week and next. I am scared about a possible recurrence.

When were you first diagnosed and when was your surgery and at what stage were you?

I used to feel at peace, but now I am very concerned. It sounds like our cases may be similar.

Again I will pray for you to be healed and if you believe in the power of prayer, may I ask you to pray for me? I have already cried several times today simply because of fear.

May God be with you.

Love,
Betty

I, too, believe in the power of prayer
Nancy & Betty

I will pray for both of you.

LaundryQueen said:

I, too, believe in the power of prayer
Nancy & Betty

I will pray for both of you.

Thank you for your prayers.
Thank you very much, Laundry Queen. (I love your discussion board name.) I'll let you know my results as I get them. Have a good evening.

Dear Nancy, I am so happy to
Dear Nancy, I am so happy to hear that the CT results are good, but very sorry you are suffering such miserable pain. I have always found abdominal pain the hardest to bear. I have no clue if this will help, but you could try probiotics. After my surgery, I was so bloated with gas that my skin stretched and that was painful too. My husband went to the health food store and got a probiotic called "Critical Care," and I felt better only 2 hours after the first. They can be expensive, but it's worth a try, if you haven't already done that. You get a much higher concentration of helpful bacteria with probiotics than with yogurt.

DB

Pain
Dear Nancy,
I'm sorry to hear that you're such abdominal pain. I hope you are given a solution quickly.
The CT scan results sound very encouraging!
(((HUGS))) Maria

clamryn said:

Nancy I read your post
Nancy I read your post yesterday and I felt so bad for you that you are in pain. I just had to sit and cry for awhile. I am glad that the implants and lymph nodes have decreased. That is good news.

I said extra prayers for you that the ascities and your pain will stop.

Linda

(((Nancy))): Hate the pain; but love the scan results!!
I hate to think of you in pain, but you have to be happy about your scan results. At least you know that chemo still works for you; that is a very important advantage. I just got my scan results, too, and have significant disease progression with my liver mets, and even my onoclogist seems to feel that I am completely chemo-resistant now. I am so glad you aren't in that same position!! Hang in there; they will get to the bottom of this pain! I'm so sorry that you are suffering.

We are looking at radioembolism for me as a possible next treatment. I have to be tested to see if I am a candidate for it. Here's the link, if anyone with liver mets is interested in this:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328092409.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)