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Hi My husband is finding difficult to no what to eat if he has a drink it feels full and he is suffering with dumping mental it is begin to wear him down. They say eat little and often but we are not sure what to eat the hospital gave us lots of information...
Hi, can anyone help my dad as had a stent fitted, he was fine eating soft foods for a couple of weeks but now he is unable to eat only drink liquids. The problem is phlegm stuck by stent that just won’t come up he as always suffered with this since...
Hi all, Firstly, I've been reading a lot on this forum and I'm sorry that so many people are going through such hardship, much like myself. In Apr a routine OGD & biopsies found a small tumour as base of oesophagus. In June, I had a successful ESD...
Hi, my husband has just been told that he has oesophageal cancer after months of swallowing problems and heartburn. He has had an endoscopy and biopsy but the biopsy results aren’t conclusive as to which type of oesophageal cancer he has. We have only...
My husband has oesophageal cancer and constantly throws up mostly mucus but sometimes semi digested food. I crush his pills to make it easier to swallow them but his makes it difficult to calculate how much he has lost and whether to give him more. The...
My 40 year old son has been told he has cancer of the oesophagus, he is due to start chemotherapy soon, would really appreciate any advice o the effects my son could go through, also any advice on his type of cancer, thank you so much x
Hi everybody, I'm 49 and went to GP with problems swallowing on then19th of May. Since then an Endoscopy and ct scan and a meeting on the 20th June to be be given the devasting news I have an Oesphageal cancer graded as T3 N3 M1. Im now referred to the...
Had operation 3 weeks ago struggling to cope seem to be losing weight trying to eat little and often but it's hard. I am getting so stressed and so is my wife she has to do everything because we have no family or friends to call on. We know it should...
Hi Group Just to keep you updated , My meeting with oncology Doctors to discuss my treatment plan Flot Chemo injection every fortnightly for 4 rounds then 6 week break then operation another break then 4 rounds of mop up chemo What i have learned...
Hi all my husband had his op 10 days ago when suddenly became very unwell. The doctors discovered he had a leak in the join between his bowl and stomach (or what was his stomach). Today we have been told they are trying to resolve this with endoscopic...
