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  • Lelana
    Lelana Member Posts: 32
    #22
    Xeloda & Taxol !
    These are the chemotheropy drugs I am now on.
    The Xeloda is a pill, and the Taxol is given in an IV.
    Four pills a day for the Xeloda, and an infussion of the Taxol every third Monday.
    This process will go on for three sessions, and then an catscan to see how my liver is comming along, that's where the spot was found!
    Right now I'm having some side affects that worry me with the Xeloda. I have stopped taking them until I see the doctor this comming Tuesday. Just to be sure every thing is all right.
    Maybe a smaller dose is required. I'm having side pain and that's unusual for me.
    Until then it's hard to sleep.
  • Lelana
    Lelana Member Posts: 32
    #23
    Lelana said:

    Xeloda & Taxol !
    These are the chemotheropy drugs I am now on.
    The Xeloda is a pill, and the Taxol is given in an IV.
    Four pills a day for the Xeloda, and an infussion of the Taxol every third Monday.
    This process will go on for three sessions, and then an catscan to see how my liver is comming along, that's where the spot was found!
    Right now I'm having some side affects that worry me with the Xeloda. I have stopped taking them until I see the doctor this comming Tuesday. Just to be sure every thing is all right.
    Maybe a smaller dose is required. I'm having side pain and that's unusual for me.
    Until then it's hard to sleep.

    side affects!
    It turns out I'm alerigic to the Xeloda.
    I've had many of the alerigic reactions and now I've been taken off of them all together!
    To top that off, after reading my billing of the medications I've been given during my chemotheropy IV sessions, I discovered that I am being billed for two medications that my doctor has not prescribed or ordered for my chemotheropy IV sessions.
    Now I don't know if I was actually given these medications or not!
    They are both cancer medications given in the IV. My doctor says that they would not harm me, but that he did not order them! The only way I caught it was because there was a billing for $1,200.00 that didn't seem right to me! My husband looked and saw that all the other chemotheropy sessions did not have those two drugs listed at all! I took the billing report to my doctor and they are now looking into it, and I will not be billed for them. The point is though, did someone give me someone else's medication? And if that's the case, it could have easily killed me! From now on I have to ask, and see what it is that I'm actually being given.
    One more worry I have to deal with!
    I heard someone say that it is probably a computer glich! Computers only do what people tell them to do! Someone is responcable for what happened, and I want to know who it was!
    Computer glich! It sounds like the start of a cover-up!
    Tom and Loni
  • rjjj
    rjjj Member Posts: 1,822 Member
    #24
    Lelana said:

    side affects!
    It turns out I'm alerigic to the Xeloda.
    I've had many of the alerigic reactions and now I've been taken off of them all together!
    To top that off, after reading my billing of the medications I've been given during my chemotheropy IV sessions, I discovered that I am being billed for two medications that my doctor has not prescribed or ordered for my chemotheropy IV sessions.
    Now I don't know if I was actually given these medications or not!
    They are both cancer medications given in the IV. My doctor says that they would not harm me, but that he did not order them! The only way I caught it was because there was a billing for $1,200.00 that didn't seem right to me! My husband looked and saw that all the other chemotheropy sessions did not have those two drugs listed at all! I took the billing report to my doctor and they are now looking into it, and I will not be billed for them. The point is though, did someone give me someone else's medication? And if that's the case, it could have easily killed me! From now on I have to ask, and see what it is that I'm actually being given.
    One more worry I have to deal with!
    I heard someone say that it is probably a computer glich! Computers only do what people tell them to do! Someone is responcable for what happened, and I want to know who it was!
    Computer glich! It sounds like the start of a cover-up!
    Tom and Loni

    Even though they know my name
    They still look at the chemo bag, orders and ask me to state my name and date of birth each time i am given an infusion. At first i thought they thought i was disoriented or something..but they said it is a new law. So that there is no mistake.
    Hugs
    jacki

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