Diarrhea

Hi wesurvived 

I'm sorry you have not had a reply to your post. I have had a different type of cancer so I hope you don't mind me replying. By responding it will place your post back at the top where it may be seen by more members of the oesophageal group.

I hope by now that you both have seen the specialist nurses and have had some help and advice. If you still need some support, consider ringing the Macmillan helpline, this is the link to contact

https://www.macmillan.org.uk/about-us/contact-us

I hope you get more replies and personal experiences. Best wishes for your husband's treatment.

A x

Thanks so much for your reply and your concern - the nurses agreed we should administer OTC rehydration salts and titrating the loperamide up has stayed the attacks. We think they'll prescribe something stronger when we see the oncologist next week. 

One of the curious aspects of caring for someone with cancer is that it seems in some cases that the side effects are both more demoralising as well as life-threatening than the tumour itself. Just an observation,

Thanks again.

I had severe diarrhoea from my chemo, loperamide didn’t help that much , but I was prescribed codeine phosphate tablets ( the codeine comes in different strengths) which really helped. 

Thanks - we did hope the morphine might work but if no joy, we'll hit the codeine. Kind of you to reply.