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IV vitamin c
looking for help regarding pharmalife labs in Europe has anyone used there products? I need details please.. dose results ? Shipping and payment ok? did you buy iv supplies from them also? I would LOVE to find a US company who would sell me or compound high dose vitamin c but I am not able to find anything. At least not…
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where to purchase / buy Vitamin C IV mega dose?
Hello, Due to the pandemic, all clinics in Illinois ran out of Vitamin C IV. Now all patients have to look for other solutions to find Vitamin C Intravenous to continue the therapy. So we can call it a humanitarian case. Question to the members of this forum ... does anyone know the distributors of Vit C IV (contact and…
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Spicy food
I was wondering. About how long does it take before you can eat spicy food without it hurting. I stay away from it now, well i try it like once a week. I eat food without spices now because i can't take it. It kills my throat. So i was curious to see what others had to say. Thanks, James
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18mm endometrial lining
Asked this on the gyn forum and then saw this one may be more helpful. I guess I'm just trying to see what I'm headed for... I'm turning 50 in a few months, and have had three full years of crazy periods from so heavy I was frightened and almost a month long, to missing period for months, to pink for days. Strange…
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Acinic Cell Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland
I would like to talk with anyone else that has been diagnosed with this type of cancer. My results were stage 2.. please read my story to find out more about me and my diagnosis.
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2 Liver Lesions one month after Folfox
Hello. I'm 33 and got diagnosed last December. I finished the 6 rounds of FOLFOX after surgery in January and no my latest CT shows 2 small hypoenhancing lesions 12 and 19 mm just less than a month after chemo. The Docs aren't certain it's cancerous but my cea is 33 so they won't be shocked either. Anyone can help shed…
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Mask anxiety medication
Hello. Does anyone take anything during treatment mask anxiety/claustrophobia? What do you take and what dosage? My doctor prescribed .5 mg of Ativan and it’s not effective at all. A Psychiatrist friend said the starting effective dose of Ativan is 2 mg. I really wish my doc would give me something that works. Thanks
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What if your Doctor said No to Tylenol?
It's Thursday. The radical nephrectomy of my left kidney was done on Monday. As everyone here can understand, pain is an issue. I got out of the hospital yesterday. The standard advice seems to be, take a more serious but limited number of pain meds (Tramadol, Oxycontin, etc.) every six hours and then fill in the blanks…
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migraine-type headaches
Hi all. I finished my treatment about 12 years ago for Stage-4 oropharyngeal cancer (HPV16), and have few long-term side effects. Lucky boy, as my wife says. I had my treatment in Tokyo University Hospital, where they gave me 24/7 chemo (three types, second round cut short after anaphylactic shock), and then 35 doses of…
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Workplace support
My wife is coming off of a year where she has had a number of surgeries, all but 1 of them related to her cancer, and is now having to deal with an employer that is concerned about her performance slipping and may be looking to terminate her. Does anyone know of any resources that we could contact that might be able to…
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Possible throat cancer.
First of all I wanted to say that for all of you here who have been diagnosed with this horrible disease, my thoughts and my prayers are with you and never give up. Keep fighting. As for me ive stumbled upon this forum because I have a few questions and concerns. I’m a 28 year old male, obese. Never smoker never drinker…
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Sweating
Silly question. Has anyone noticed sweating a lot more during their cancer treatment? If yes, does it go away after chemo is done? Drinking a cup of hot tea makes my head sweat now. Maybe it always did but I never noticed because I had hair (lots of it). Now with a bald head, the sweating is very obvious. Such a strange…
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Cancer Target: Mesothelin
Mesothelin is a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored cell surface glycoprotein. Its biological function has not yet been clarified, but due to its limited distribution in normal tissues and high expression in some tumor tissues, it is expected to be used in tumor-specific treatment. In existing studies of human…
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pissed off Breast Cancer ****
I'm 43 years old mother of 2 and I recently had a mastectomy, 6 months of chemo, radiation and now I am onto the anti estrogen therapy. I am miserable and I cry all the time and no really understands the impact this has on a woman. My husbands thinks I am crazy. they all think I should be happy to be alive. obviously I am…
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Auto Stem Cell Transplant for MCL
Soon I will have to decide if I want to elect to do an Auto Stem Cell transplant for my Mantle Cell Lymphoma or just Rituxin maintenance. I am interested to hear any stories about your Stem Cell transplant experience and whether or not you would make the same choice. I am also interested in hearing if the ASCT was an…
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16 years out
Hello all, Been a long time since I posted. Just as a hopeful message to those out there. 16 years ago dx with stage 4 colon cancer, mets to liver and lung. After 10 years of whack and mole with chemo and surgery, I have been just lucky that it hasn't popped back up again. My son, who was in 6th grade when this started ,…
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Biner
Has anyone heard from biner lately just wonder how he was doing
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Biopsy results
Update - appointment with oncologist Dec 1st. Will know more about treatment and let you know. Did find out that there will most likely not be surgery. Hi I got the biopsy results and the RCC has spread to the pancreas. Will hear about next steps soon. I'm definitely scared but I know God is helping me. Thanks for your…
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Kidney Tumor
Hi I have just been informed by my doctor that after waiting almost 3 months for the information from ultrasounds and CT Scans that I have a tumor in my right Kidney. He wanted me to wait and see if it got any bigger 6 months from now, but I opted to see a specialist. There is a lot of Cancer in my family. Does anyone know…
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Left Kidney removed
I am 36, got 5.8cm mass on left kidney. Both mass and the left kidney was removed laparoscopically. It’s been 6 weeks since the removal. Life has changed, emotionally too. Should I be on a specific diet. Should I specifically do something. Can I lift weights and go for runs?
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New Year
Happy New Year H&N Members, Not to be too confusing to the (current and active) H&N members but, back in 2013 I came across the following post by a 2010 H&N member known as nkimber. I found it to be very heartfelt and I have been re-posting it back to the top of the H&N forum (most) every January since. Many H&N members…
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Black Seed Oil
New here and representing a relative. We're newly into prostrate treatment and glad to belong to this support group. Wondering if any survivor has registered positive outcomes from the use of black seed oil. There's numerous research suggesting it's use in killing cancer cells. Happy to learn from your experience.
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Remission and neuropathy
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Constant mucous vomiting
Hello They found a mass in my husbands stomach and performed an IvorLewisEsophahectomy removing 2/3 of his stomach 11/8/22. thankfully benign. In hospital 30days due to reoccurring fluid pockets. He also had a stent placed in his esophagus due the reconnection site of the esophagus to stomach was leaking ! Finally…
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HPV+
So we tell everyone, "get the vaccination, you wont get HPV+ cancer. BUT, your chances of making it with HPV- are substantially less than if HPV+ (30-50 as opposed to 90 - full cure) So really, you are damned if you do, and damned if you don't
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Should I Be Concerned
hello, good people. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! yesterday, i had my PSA blood draw and it went up quite a bit. my PSA yesterday was 1.31, up from .76 in late september 2022. i'm not feeling too good about those results. here's a list of my PSA 12.17.2019 | 11.45 = BEFORE HDR BRACHYTHERAPY ============== 01.21.2021 | 4.04 = 1ST. PSA…
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Newbie to this site
Diagnosed July 2022 Stage 1 TNBC tumor 1.8 cm. Not in lymph nodes as of the first breast MRI. I guess we will find out after surgery Just finished 5 months of chemo and getting ready for lumpectomy and auxiliary node removal in February then I will have radiation not sure how many yet. I am worried because I never got a Ct…
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neck and shoulder pain
Has anyone had unexplained neck and shoulder pain after treatment?
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Newly Diagnosed
Hello! I was just diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer/invasive ductal carcinoma (grade 1/ stage 3b) which has speard to my lymph nodes. To say that I am terrified would be a massive understatement. This past Tuesday, we went through my preliminary treatment plan and it's daunting. While I still need to have an MRI,…
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Clear scans other than the typical residual inflammation.
I have been so busy trying to reclaim some sense of my life that I haven't had time to post for a while. Dec 12 scans looked good for now, no mets! The tiny nodule in my lung remains unchanged and unremarkable. There are no other areas of activity lighting up. I have a greatly diminished activity in the area of known mass.…