Diagnosis Complete (95%) - Chemo/Rad Starting Next Week - Yikes!

Thank you so much Russ. I'll look at these & do a search also.

Okay I made it back to the forum.

Thank you for the return comment. It makes a person feel really welcomed when your comments don't fall on deaf ears.

I can't believe the challenges I have navigating forums, it's kind of embarrassing. After all I used to be a computer programmer for a metal fabrication shop running programs for a Lazer machine that cut metal and other materials. lol

I'll ask some dumb question about navigation so if any one would like to help me with Forum Navigation for dummies it would be one less frustration to bear so thanx to all ahead of time.

When I log on how do I get to "make a comment". Right know I just stumble along, click, click, click till I run across my comments. Then just add on. Question can everyone read my comments or just the head and neck cancer members. And are all my comments just viewed under the comment I started with wbcgaruss? Wait I'm thinking if I go straight to my profile page I just scroll down and find "My Comments" and just post away. I'll try this later right now I have to get off the web and find a way to relieve my throat challenge, EVERY TIME I SWALLOW, it feels like I have a piece of sandpaper is lodged in my throat. I try not to hack up this annoyance constantly (every 12 minutes) as I know this is just going to make it worse. Ran out of pain meds so going to try water salt and soda rinse. Hope this goes away soon, just have to focus on a routine. I now know that at any given point its routine, routine, routine a person has to follow to get through this all. Gotta go now before I drive myself crazy.

Thanx to all agian

Will post enjoyable moments I shared with others along the way latter as I figure out what the heck I'm doing lol.

Awwgh gotta go Now. Until latter hang in there😏

Yes Steph, good idea, some alternative pain relief as opposed to the normal route usually taken. I found those links in response to Jeri having a problem with regular pain meds. I always try to find informative pages and valid information before I post them. I feel the first two are good valid information and the third one is from Cancer.net which I feel is a very reliable information source.

Take care-God Bless-Russ

Well Jeri you got me curious so I looked up belladonna. Very interesting plant and is used in a lot of meds and is in the fluid the eye doctor dilates your eyes with. From what I see Jeri it is only deadly if you ingest the plant or berries directly.

While it has been used as a poison in the past, scientists today extract chemicals from belladonna for use in medicine. These chemicals, when used under a doctor’s supervision, can treat a range of afflictions, from excessive urination at night to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Also found some other interesting facts--

Belladonna has been used in alternative medicine as an aid in treating arthritis pain, colds or hay fever, bronchospasms caused by asthma or whooping cough, hemorrhoids, nerve problems, Parkinson's disease, colic, irritable bowel syndrome, and motion sickness. Jun 23, 2020

How does it work? Belladonna has chemicals that can block functions of the body's nervous system. Some of the body functions regulated by the nervous system include salivation, sweating, pupil size, urination, digestive functions, and others. Belladonna can also cause increased heart rate and blood pressure.Jun 11, 2021

And an interesting article covering Belladona in Medical news today--

Thanks for poking my curiosity-Take Care-God Bless-Russ

OK, Jeri so glad it could provide help for you possibly I guess you will know once you try it.

I am sorry you had to do a little hospital time but sometimes it is the best place for us. I don't think the G-tube caused your appendicitis maybe it was coincidental it happened about the same time. I never heard of anything like that happening anyway. Whether you used the feeding tube or not has nothing to do with it the tube is just a direct line to your stomach to get necessary food and liquids and meds in if needed. Your feeding tube should not be painful, if it hurts like hell as you say I think something's wrong. Contact the office that put it in right away and let them know it is very painful. On a feeding tube, there is a bumper I'll call it that goes up against the inside and there is one on the outside like a disk or bumper and the outside one is slid in against your outside skin. So you have one inside and outside on the tube keeping it in place so it can't move out or move in it is sort of lightly clamped by these 2 disks or retainers. It could be that they have them too tight and giving you pain but this should not be. If you have never had one they take a little to get used to and you may have a little discomfort but you should not have the level of pain you describe. I have had 2 of them and did not have any pain except you may have some initial soreness for a bit around the area for a few days like any surgery or procedure.

Jeri-Wishing you the best

Take care-God Bless-Russ