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Hello, I have recently been diagnosed with DLBCL, although I’m still due a PET scan and further pathology on the biopsy incase it’s a sub version. I’m booked in to start RCHOP in just over a week. I’ve looked through some posts here and am generally trying...
Hi dad has been taken 20 prednisolene 2 days pre chemo and 2days post chemo he has ine day left tommorow. Reading the literature we was given it says steroids should not just be stopped due to severe withdrawal. I phoned the ward which is his 24 hour...
Dads words not mine . He has been so well and back to the old pops busy, happy ,enjoying food and company. We were prepared for the relapse after steroids stopping. He wasnt! He is immensely low ,cold exhausted Not wanting to eat and sleeping on and off...
Hello just had my second and last cycle of Methotrexate and I have to say I've never felt so terrible before had I known in advance maybe I wouldn't have gone ahead with it has anyone else gone through similar to me feeling on the edge of passing out...
Hello. Thank you for welcoming me into this group. I have recently been diagnosed with Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma. I start chemotherapy on Monday.
Hi Im not sure if Im in the right group. My dad was rushed to hospital just over a week ago with hypocalcemia . The doctors started talking about secondary bone cancer and looking for a primary. They did a ct scan and said he had lymphoma they decided...
Hello. I was diagnosed with stage 4 dlbcl triple hit in October 2018. (uterus, bladder, liver, kidneys, adrenal glands, lungs, neck) The very short version is this: After a year of battling, and 2 relapses ((which included further tumours in my head,...
Hello I'm due to have a PICC Line insertion next week I have read it's pretty much painless can anyone reassure me as to the truth in this.Thanks
Hi I was recently given the all clear as of free of disease and am currently waiting on a decision as to whether I will be given preventative chemotherapy.I was wondering what are people's experiences in regard to length of time it takes to fully recover...
Being so frail and not being able to tolerate chemo after 2 sets of it they have said my dad is palliative and may only have a few weeks with us
