family member been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer that has spread they have said without treatment life expectancy is 2-3 months however they are going to start immunotherpy with chemo in the next 2 weeks and said life expectancy with this is 2-5...
Hi My Mum has lung cancer and COPD. Following an episode where she had to go into hospital in August when she needed some oxygen in hospital to stabilise her she has continued to struggle with her breathing and low oxygen levels in the mornings. I was...
My husband was on keytruda for 6 months & was decided not working. It did shrink lymph nodes to start & cancer stable then 2nd 3 month scan scan showed lymph nodes & lumg mass fractionally growing, so was stopped. All the time he was on it felt ill, nausea...
I am 5 week post RLL lobectomy. Im so sore. When does it improve? Im taking gabapentin paracetamol. Went to doctors yesterday she give me napraxon to take aswell 2x a day. I thought i would of been further along.
First I must thank all on this forum but especially Chillesimo….we went into my husbands’ first appointment on the Fast Diagnosis Pathway this morning better prepared than what we would have been. Despite the appointment letter stating it was for a respiratory...
While I was on my 4 days respite, which turned into 4 days of worrying hell, I just dont know whats going to happen. I managed to speak a nurse when I got home todsy, who said husbands lucky to be alive, as he let himself become so ill with bowel/sickness...
I have to take 3 days of steroids every three weeks. Day before, on the day and day after. I swear I'm getting a moon face (to go with my two left feet) I'm surprised , as I thought it was mainly long term steroid use that caused weight gain and bloating...
Hi am in a happy state of disbelief that after being initially told terminal and inoperable I had my oncologist appointment and the results after only 3 chemo and 1 week of radiotherapy the umour NSCLC in lung and mass back have reacted amazingly and...
As anyone suffered prednislone weaning? My husbands coming down from a 60mg dose & literally have no idea what side affects will be. Although bloods good chemo canx this week. Although he feels marvelous esp with walking. We were hoping after 10 months...
Hi my mum is 73 and generally well, she had a sore back which led us to take her to A&E, they treated her for hivy infection and she bounced straight back after one week of anti biotics and a low dose of Gabapentin. She had CTs and MRI and discovered...
