Nine treatments, eleven days or 232 hours (but who's counting)

Yeah, who's counting. lol

11 more for me. Treatments that is. There really is nothing like the sound of that mask clacking down to the table , is there?

Luke

both crack me up....

I think you're thinking the same thing I did when I was going to radiation everyday.....no matter what, just not having to go somewhere where they put you in lock down every day, was going to be heaven........regardless if I felt crappier, I still didn't have to go anywhere.

p

Joe,

Glad to see you uping the dose. My husband spent 5 days in hospital because he tried to be brave. If you are honest with your docs on your experience, they can mediate any nausea and pain. If you don't stay ahead of those two.. They'll wear you down.

you are doing great, it's not easy, keep drinking... Keep eating.. Stay strong, the single digit days go really fast!

Kari

Joe,

Sounds like your doing as well as can be expected. Be sure to stay hyrdrated and keep up with your rinses (baking soda/salt/water or MM). The radiation just dries everything right out. It is especially important to keep up the swallowing during this time...it gets tough if  you don't keep that up. We had the fentanyl patches also...up to 75 mg during the last half of tx. We are 8 weeks out this week and he is down to 25mg and there is just off and on pain. Next week he drops to 12.5.

Keep pluggin' away.... : )

~Cris   

donfoo said:

yes. how about mary jane?

Look here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)  These are all my my neighbors and hangouts. :-)

Digging more the past few days, it was brought to my attention that MJ can help with nausea and appetite but is effective nor a substitute for analgesics. So, I guess there is no way around all the heavy pain meds and just need to treat the pain and deal with the immediate and longer term side effects.

It is never recommended to try to smoke it but vaporized and consuming offers better ways to get into system.

 

 

crazy to get me to at least try pot to enhance my appetite and control pain.  Frankly, unless it comes in a pill that a person can crush and get down the tube, I don't know how it would be administered during treatment for throat cancer.  You can't eat it in cookies or brownies, if your mouth is as dry as a cob....not to mention that they might just come right back up....andtrying to smoke it, vape it, or drink it with a mouth full of sores doesn't sounds pretty painful, too. 

Needless to say, I passed on the pot.....I had no desire to come off of opiates either, having done that in my past.  I was pretty scared actually of even taking anything, after being clean and sober for 25 years.....in the last two months of treatment tho, I broke down and got some liquid hydrocodone to pour down my tube. 

Is "420" the number of the law that was passed....somewhere?

p 

phrannie51 said:

I have a friend who tried like

crazy to get me to at least try pot to enhance my appetite and control pain.  Frankly, unless it comes in a pill that a person can crush and get down the tube, I don't know how it would be administered during treatment for throat cancer.  You can't eat it in cookies or brownies, if your mouth is as dry as a cob....not to mention that they might just come right back up....andtrying to smoke it, vape it, or drink it with a mouth full of sores doesn't sounds pretty painful, too. 

Needless to say, I passed on the pot.....I had no desire to come off of opiates either, having done that in my past.  I was pretty scared actually of even taking anything, after being clean and sober for 25 years.....in the last two months of treatment tho, I broke down and got some liquid hydrocodone to pour down my tube. 

Is "420" the number of the law that was passed....somewhere?

p 

HI p,

This will get you started  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

I'm a native NorCal and Bay Area for more than 20 years so pot use is just everyday deal. It has been decriminalized for many years and IF the cops even bother it is just a ticket with a fine, like a traffic citation.

From my research the vapor does not irritate during intake. What was pointed out to me as fishmapa states it is effective for nausea and making you want to eat. It does NOT do much as an analgesic, so it is not going to be an alternative to the progession of pain meds most seem to get here. And that was my main thing - to avoid the opiates and heavy pain meds but that seems not to be the case.

You are still so thin and probably could use a good daily dose of the munchies so maybe it can work for you. I hear oil is anohter way to get it into your system but there must be products that are powderrized that can be put down the PEG and at least combat the nausea symptoms. will report back what I find.

fishmanpa said:

Old Hippies.....

As a child of the 70's, I smoked more weed then I care to admit. Gave it up many, many years ago but my 420 alert goes off whenever I catch a whiff! There were a few movies about cancer recently that showed the patient smoking. It helps control nausea and enhances appetite. Anyone who's partaken knows what the "muchies" are. Unfortunately, the pleasure of pigging out would be nullified by lack of taste and a PEG.

That being said, it may be time to make a few calls and pull out my Grateful Dead albums ~lol~

"T"

Joe,

After tx isn't necessarily going to be worse. My lip sores started to improve week 1 post tx and were gone week 2. When I finished tx, my neck turned very dark and then peeled but never burned or hurt at all. Week 3 I lost about 3 inches of hair between my ears in the back which of course didn't hurt at all. At the start of week 5 my energy started to return and I felt like I had turned the corner. By week 6 I was full of energy. During my tx, I too went from hydrocodone to the patch but that was only for a couple of weeks. At some point following week 6 the radio actually went back on in the car.  Each day post tx actually got better for me, I hope the same for you.

Candi