Sorry another moan

Hi Jim, So sorry to hear you are suffering with these problems! The trouble with taking drugs is it upsets your stomach. I have to take a drug every day to help my stomach cope with the drugs I take as they upset my system! I have been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulitis both due to the drugs. I have to stay away from green vegetables as they just run right through me. I go from constipation to diarrhoea and I get a lot of stomach ache but I just try to get on with it and thank my lucky stars I'm still here!

I would forget about Google, if I were you, a lot of their information is old and not at all up to date. It told me the survival rate of Stage 4 MM was nil! That was in 2013, it didn't take into consideration all the research into new drugs! It is good you have a good team behind you with plenty of people looking out for you. I am sure they will help all they can!

Jim

my stomach is all over the place. If I take any opiates my bowels stop so I have to take bisacodyl and senna. When I stop taking the opiates the acid in the pazopanib I take for the cancer gives me the runs and I have to take loperamide ( Imodium). I am slowly working out that one loperamide each day for two days stops the runs without making me constipated so I know do that most weeks to try to keep the stomach in balance. 

I get horrible stomach aches with this cav chemo.  Swings from constipation to the trots in a heartbeat- and hurts for ten days.  I took gavescon last time and sort of regretted it but it did do the trick .... eventually- just had to stay near the loo