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Hello, hope someone can advise me-I'm 63, never been in hospital for anything before, and have terrible phobias of all things medical (mainly because both my mother and brother had poor treatment for a stroke, and pancreatic cancer respectively, I had...
Hi my dad has been on chemotherapy tablets for 12 months and last week started intravenous treatment last week. he has flu and we have had to call out paramedics today. The paramedic has said in the event of the worse they won’t resuscitate. we...
Hi just got diagnosed with a rare condition which means I have tumors in head and on spine I have been given paracetamol ~ codeine and have taken them for the last week , however they are not really working I wake up in the night after a couple of hours...
My husband has Stage 4 lung cancer, efgr mutation. He’s taking osimertinib and had his first chemo last Thursday. He’s was fine for the first couple of days but then started vomiting non stop for 24 hours. He was admitted to hospital on Tuesday, re-hydrated...
I am posting on behalf of somebody else. We were discussing yesterday that she has started with vivid dreams that involve herself and her mother with memories from her childhood. This is not something that she has dreamt about before and wondered if this...
Hello My dad was diagnosed with colon cancer (T4N2M0) a few months ago. Plan was to have 5x5 chemo and radio and then hopefully surgery to remove it. For some reason they sent him for his surgery fitness test prior to starting any treatment, and he...
Hi got diagnosed a few weeks ago been told i will need three rounds of chemotherapy and bladder removal which i think ive accepted most times, ive redirected my mind and focus to decorating to calm my mind. I work in healthcare as a senior care assistant...
Does anything have experience of taking these two drugs together, or can point to information regarding effectiveness? Thank you very much.
Can anyone advise on the best type of laxatives to use with codeine types of pain relief? The oncologist suggested that ones that soften the stools isn’t best as it’s better to have something that ‘promotes movement’. he suggested I ask the community...
Hi I live in Spain and had my biopsy 11 days ago. I went to the doctors yesterday for my husband and I ask my doctor if he had my biopsy results. He read a form, raised his eyebrows, and said he could not comment. He was only a go and there was no comments...
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