Can't start next treatment until pain is under control
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FormerMember
Abel had a tough night with pain last night. It was learned about 10 days ago that he has secondary liver pain and blood clots in his lungs. He is taking Lovenox injections 2 times a day. They increased his morphine to 30 mg every 12 hours and if any pain in between to take morphine 15 mg every 4 hours.
We had a very quick appt. to go over this with the oncologist and were really quite upset as we were told we would be seeing the pain management doctors but their schedules did not allow them to be a part of the meeting. We have an appt. this friday with the oncologist and pain doctor.
The doctor had said that if we can't get the pain under control that he will not be able to start a new chemo treatment. Ofcourse, this is upsetting to us and now we have so many questions about this! We are afraid that the cancer is spreading because of the pain. Has anyone ever experienced pain while going through treatment? Not pain from side effects?? This is unsettling to me because I feel so helpless and scared!
FormerMember
This journey is made up of so many peaks and troughs isn't it? So frustrating now you have hit one of those troughs. I'm so sorry that Abel is in so much pain and of course this will make you anxious. Start writing down all those questions for when you see the pain management person and make sure you get answers that you can understand. Meanwhile I hope the morphine can at least take the edge off his pain until his next appointment. Sending you both a gentle hug.
Hi sweetheart - and it's only natural that you would feel helpless and scared. I'm sure we could all relate to those feelings. With regards to pain whilst going through treatment, I was going through terrible pain in both my shoulders when I was having radiotherapy treatment to my neck. This pain had actually started about a week before radiotherapy began, and it was something my oncologist was made aware of at the time. I'm not really sure that this will be of any benefit to you, because I'm not really sure what question you are asking. I do hope someone will come along who may be able to give you more information, with lots of love kate xxxxxxxxx
