Sleepiness

Hi Tsc 

Welcome to our community. 
I was on morphine through the latter part of my treatment and I slept lots.Enough morphine will indeed make you very drowsy.
Do you have a start date for treatment ? 

Hi I was on oramorph towards the end if my treatment yes it does make you sleepy. Make sure he has laxido or movicol prescribed as opitates cause constipation as well. 

Let us know when and what his treatment plan is if yiuve questions just ask on here someone will always get back to you  

Hazel 

Hi and thanks for replying. His treatment starts on the 19th feb. So will be on Monday. It has advanced to his neck and the lump in his neck has grown massively now. I hope all goes well for you now. I am just so scared for him. 

Hi and thanks for replying. He hasn’t started his treatment yet and is in so much pain as it has advanced to his neck. He will be having treatment five days a week for six weeks. Four days of radiotherapy and one day of chemo. It will be a long journey 

The lymph nodes can get quite big. Trust his team. They have tailored his treatment just for him and they are good at what they do. 
Do you have a staging for him? 
Mine was T2N0M0 which means the cancer was less than 4cm and there was no metastasis to neither the nodes nor distantly. 

I am unsure of the actual staging but I will ask on Monday. The letter definitely says  metastasis though and this was after his first biopsy taken from the lymph nodes in his neck

Tsc said:

The letter definitely says  metastasis

Yes that will refer to his neck. 

Hi. Mine was discovered in my neck that’s the metastatic bit the primary was in my tonside it’s the usual place where the lymoh nides do their job and contain the cancer I had by time of treatment 7 affected lymoh nofes. 8m now over 5.5 years since treatment finished happily living my life . I think you’ll find he’s having radiotherapy Monday to Friday is the unusual route with in chemo days radiotherapy is fitted in inbetween infusions. That the normal sequence .

Hazel xx