Hi all, me AGAIN. So mum was really staring to improve, the morpheme patch has worked a treat and she had slowly started to introduce small amounts of food (weetabix, pot noodles ??? And a biscuit dunked in tea etc)
6 wk check up went well and PET scan due in 6 weeks. Mum is walking more, getting out and about and even making holiday plans…
then 24 hours ago she started with excruciating stomach cramps and being sick pure yellow bile. She had to be blue lighted to hospital and spent all night/morning in A&E. They have done a Ct scan and there was no sign of blockage or any surgery needed but unexplained inflammation in the bowel. She is awaiting a further scan with dye tomorrow. They’ve also of the blue’ diagnosed her with AF …at 81! All of the above could be related to the cancer treatment but no reasoning behind it. So my question is, did anyone else suffer with abdominal issues post H&N RT? Heart issue? Poor thing. Goes 81 years on no meds or health issues and then all at once we’re 6 months of nothing but…
Hi...so sorry for your poor mum, I hope she is now comfortable
All of the above could be related to the cancer treatment but no reasoning behind it
Is that what the hospital said? Chemo can cause heart damage but she didn't have that. I have radiotherapy induced carotid stenosis but that is a long term, not acute, side effect
Do let us know how she fares.
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
