What kinda pain do you get? Is it severe? How do you manage it? Her pain has become pretty severe . They gave her morphine which caused obstruction. Now on fentanyl. Which causes nausea :/ it just came suddenly . And has increased so much
Hey everyone . So my started having bone pain in her sacroiliac joint a week or two ago. It started as stiffness. She cudnt get up from lying down or stand after sitting. Thn it started hurting. Radiated in the right leg . Front of thigh. She had some spots show up in last scan in t12 and right ilia...
It's been almost 72 hours and only minor improvement. We're trying to get her transferred to her cancer center for better medical management. How is your wife doing now? Is she off tpn? She is still on TPN but it has been reduced a bit since she is over her target weight. She is taking pain meds fo...
risto wrote:It's been almost 72 hours and only minor improvement. We're trying to get her transferred to her cancer center for better medical management.
I have a close friend who has widely disseminated cancer with peritoneal metastatis and bony lesions to her femur, humorous, and skull. She also has recurrent digestive distress and is able to take-in only a few bites of food due to feeling abdominal pressure and fullness. Her oncologist has explai...
Why was she in the hospital for so long? Did she have some complications? And is she on tpn cuz she can't eat much? Where does she feel the pain when she eats?
Mum had a surgery 4 weeks back for small bowel obstruction which wasn't resolving conservatively. Has an ileostomy. she was eating normally but for the past 2, 3 days she gets fullness after eating. Heaviness. Not nausea or vomiting. But fullness. Even with small amount of food. Can anyone relate? I...
My DW had a small bowel obstruction on Jan 23. After spending 8 days in community hospital, where we had been told it was either due to adhesion or peritoneal mets, she was transferred to her cancer center and had surgery. It turned out to be an internal hernia into the descending mesocolon, a comp...
I want to ask people who have had small bowel obstruction... How did you know it has cleared? My mom had one almost 4 weeks back. She wasn't vomiting much. But there was nausea vomiting diarrhea. Confirmed on CT scan. After 2 days of bowel rest they started fluid diet n it appeared like the obstruct...
Sara What you are describing was in my wife's case the beginning of the end for her. They attempted to bypass the blockage by giving her a colostomy. That seemed to help for a few days, but there appeared to be a second blockage above where they made the colostomy connection. She had quite a lot of...
Roscoe Douglas, roscoe@firstbenefits.com Update: I was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer at age 67. The treatment offered was Chemotherapy only. The Liver mets were supposed to kill me in 6 months without chemo. I refused Chemo and started on the Budwig diet, a restrictive diet that involves eati...