Laura, I'm so glad that you are tolerating FOLFOX well so far. But please remember that Zofran and Aloxi are in the same family and should not be taken at the same time. Aloxi is supposed to last 3 days, so only from Day 4, you are allowed to take zofran every 8 hrs as needed for nausea. You can tak...

Sanny,
Welcome to this wonderful support forum. Best wishes on your mom's scan!

CRguy,
Congratulations on the NED status. Will plan to join you in 2015 with same great news!

Laura, So far, I have been tolerating FOLFOX well, and I prefer to continue with the 2 days of IV 5-FU rather having to take Xeloda for 2 weeks. I didn't like taking large Xeloda tabs during the neoadjuvant therapy, and I did have mild Hand-Foot Syndrome with Xeloda. While taking Xeloda, I also didn...

Wishing you the best findings on your procedure and a speedy recovery so that next step in annihilating this cancer can be planned!

What a great month of celebration! Congratulations Pollo, Diane, Beth, and Rick! Here's to many more years of good health and great news!

Congratulations! Thank you for sharing the great news!

Wow, congratulations on the 4 year cancerversary and the fact you have a tremendously strong and admirable husband! It also is a testimony of your strength behind him. I'm sorry that Blake went through recent troubles, but it's great that he is recovering well.

Nanatte, I'm sorry to hear about Bruce's new problem on top of already a confusing situation with the anemia. I understand Bruce's wishes to try to complete the plan of action already set-up with the specialists, however, I agree with others' that he really needs to contact his oncologist. A gastroe...

Bev, You and your husband's in my prayers. Already been said by others, but take deep breaths and hope you have other family and loved ones with you during these trying times. I pray that he responds well and that things will look so much better after these few initial days of treatment and close mo...

Becky and KarMel, Thank you for sharing your bittersweet journeys. Stability on maintenance is a definitely a positive news, and it gives some opportunity to concentrate on enjoying life and allows more time for to come-up with new medical options. I just want to give Becky and her husband and KarMe...

Good morning Colemac, Just for privacy and safety issues, I haven't been wanting to post my email address or phone number in a public forum, however, I'll be happy to correspond with you via this Forum's email and PM features. Have you registered officially? I believe you just need few more posts or...

Laura,
I sent you a PM last evening about some thoughts that I figured were just redundant for the forum posts but still possibly helpful for you. I wasn't sure if you are aware of the PM feature. You can access it via User Control Panel.

One more thing! Yeah, sorry, but I'm a tad long-winded. :wink: Some of you were mentioning upper GI issues with possible reflux disease or gastritis and planning GI evaluation. It's important to go ahead with the upper endoscopic evaulation and GI consultations if your symptoms are persistent. In th...

Good morning all, My surgery experience won't help you but I still thought I may be able to give some suggestions since I had a long history of irritable bowel syndrome as well as I have treated many patients with abdominal pains with frequent loose BM's (bowel movements) or frequent diarrhea or a c...