Lydia666 wrote:I was wondering if anyone had 4 months of chemo through a picc line. Is that possible?
Lydia666 wrote:
I was wondering if anyone had 4 months of chemo through a picc line. Is that possible?
OG wrote:
Yes. I had it. No problems at all.
I don't know about Québec, but Ontario simply won't do ports for "short-term" chemo (less than, say, 6 months). What Ontario did pay for was visiting nurses to unhook the 5FU pump and flush out the line a week later. That kept me from having to navigate outside in freezing weather. Not good on FOLFOX.
Best,
OG
nicola smith wrote:Lydia666 wrote:
I was wondering if anyone had 4 months of chemo through a picc line. Is that possible?
OG wrote:
Yes. I had it. No problems at all.
I don't know about Québec, but Ontario simply won't do ports for "short-term" chemo (less than, say, 6 months). What Ontario did pay for was visiting nurses to unhook the 5FU pump and flush out the line a week later. That kept me from having to navigate outside in freezing weather. Not good on FOLFOX.
Best,
OG
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I am in Ontario. I was scheduled for 6 months of chemo which they originally wanted me to do through a PICC line (since I already had one as a result of complications post-colectomy). Having had the experience of a PICC for a month, I knew I did not want it any longer...itchy, constantly getting tangled, made it impossible to take a bath and had to be covered up during a shower, required a home care visit every week...I could go on...but did I say ITCHY! I was able to argue that my active lifestyle would be really restricted by a PICC and that seemed to do the trick for getting the powers that be at my hospital to agree to a port. The port was absolutely no trouble and the surgery was a breeze. I do not regret my choice at all. Good luck to you in making your case, should you choose to got the port route.
CRguy wrote:HIS take = NG tube was the worst
PICC line was a close second
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