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#4334665 - 02/04/17 05:03 PM Re: The Big "C" [Re: F4UDash4]  
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Adorable little girl Max. That will give you hope for sure. F4U - that carry around bag looks tough. I just had to go in once a week. Good luck man.

Falstar I just saw my surgeon yesterday about swelling and pain were my ileostomy bag was. The sight of the stoma wound hurts a lot. He says I probably have a incisional hernia. I already have an inguinal hernia on my left side from the 'trauma' of the original surgery. I was was hoping my battle was coming to an end. What is the mesh called? Now I am concerned.

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Adorable little girl Max. That will give you hope for sure. F4U - that carry around bag looks tough. I just had to go in once a week. Good luck man.

Falstar I just saw my surgeon yesterday about swelling and pain were my ileostomy bag was. The sight of the stoma wound hurts a lot. He says I probably have a incisional hernia. I already have an inguinal hernia on my left side from the 'trauma' of the original surgery. I was was hoping my battle was coming to an end. What is the mesh called? Now I am concerned.



Didn't mean to scare you. The law suits are dealing with Hernia Mesh mostly installed about 10 years ago. There are different brands. Physiomesh, Bard, Marlex, UltraPro, ect... I don't know which brand I have. Google just makes my head swim.

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#4334704 - 02/04/17 09:13 PM Re: The Big "C" [Re: LB4LB]  
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Originally Posted By: LB4LB
F4U - that carry around bag looks tough. I just had to go in once a week. Good luck man.



I'm only on the pump for about 48 hours, once per 2 weeks. I go in for about 4 hours of in office chemo then I take the portable pump home for an additional 48 hours, I have to go back in tomorrow to disconnect and return the pump. Then I repeat in 2 weeks. Having some issues with nausea today, hoping that subsides once I'm off the pump.


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#4334712 - 02/04/17 10:21 PM Re: The Big "C" [Re: F4UDash4]  
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The nausea is pretty tough. I know they used to put medication in my IV for it when I went in. Your Onc should give you an anti nausea prescription if you ask. I'm sure they told you about neuropathy. The bottom of your feet might get soar and the skin might get rough and fall off. The stuff I was on, I couldn't touch anything cold or drink anything cold (it would cause your throat to close up). The first session is tough. Chemo brain is very real too. It can be a very humbling experience.

#4334715 - 02/04/17 10:30 PM Re: The Big "C" [Re: F4UDash4]  
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I had pain in my limbs, dizziness, confusion, loss of taste and smell and massive weight loss. 11 kgs in just a few weeks. Of course hair loss also, virtually all body hair as well. Also constant tears streaming from my eyes.

I'm only now feeling normal after the chemo ended in October.

BUT my PSA shrunk from over 6 to 0.26. The cancers, whilst not eliminated, have been set back massively.


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#4334722 - 02/04/17 10:46 PM Re: The Big "C" [Re: F4UDash4]  
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Strangely I only lost hair where I had radiation. I had electric like shocks in my mouth and jaw. My teeth really hurt too. Felt like I had a mouthful of cavities. When they put a breathing tube down my throat during one operation, they knocked two crowns loose on my top front teeth. They actually cracked the half teeth in my gum line that held the posts. Still waiting for the chemo effects to wear off to get that fixed. My mouth tasted like metal and food tasted completely different. My eyes were red and weeping all the time. I looked stoned , and felt stoned. I am hoping the chemo brain wheres off soon.

#4334738 - 02/05/17 12:47 AM Re: The Big "C" [Re: F4UDash4]  
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I forgot all the little sores in my mouth and all over the body. They were the worst thing of all as well.

The main thing is to just get through. I had a lot of support from my SimHQ mates here, and that significantly helped me through. I'd hate to tackle it alone. (apart from family of course)


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#4348909 - 04/04/17 02:20 AM Re: The Big "C" [Re: F4UDash4]  
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Found out today that my wife has breast cancer. A small, 5mm, nodule that will require surgery. Slow growing so the surgeon is confident that she should be fine.


I really hate the word cancer these days.


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#4348934 - 04/04/17 10:46 AM Re: The Big "C" [Re: U-96]  
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. It's easy to think eating hamsters and sticking organic carrots up your bum will cure all.


Well you got it wrong there mate; isn't it supposed to be t'other way round?



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Man F4U, sorry to hear about even more bad luck. I swear it seems that almost half the people out there are getting diagnosed with Cancer. I live in an area with a very high rate of it. There seems to be no where to hide.

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Originally Posted by LB4LB
Man I swear it seems that almost half the people out there are getting diagnosed with Cancer. I live in an area with a very high rate of it. There seems to be no where to hide.



The genetic defects and causes of cancer have existed since the earliest days of homo sapiens but the environmental causes have most certainly increased.


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Hope all goes well with you and your wife F4, my sis in law had a lump in her breast too, they were able to remove the lump and the lymph node under her arm and she got to keep her breasts, she was lucky.


With my father, father's brother, my mother, her father and my younger brother all having succumbed to cancer it scares the cr@p out of me.

Still remember the day when the doctor told me about my mother, his mouth was moving but I never heard a word he said, later my brother said that that's what happened to him too, even though I had known my mother had cancer for a few days, when I got home and went to see the doctor with her it still came as a shock as he spelled out what the prognosis was, 3 months if she was lucky.

My brother ignored his symptoms and didn't go to the doctor until too late, they gave him 8 months and he checked out just after 3 months had past.


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#4349046 - 04/04/17 07:02 PM Re: The Big "C" [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
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Man I swear it seems that almost half the people out there are getting diagnosed with Cancer. I live in an area with a very high rate of it. There seems to be no where to hide.



The genetic defects and causes of cancer have existed since the earliest days of homo sapiens but the environmental causes have most certainly increased.


People used to die of other stuff (flu, TB, infections, typhoid, whatever) before they got cancer. As we cure the old reapers of humanity, the remaining ones gain prominence. Couple that with longer lifespans (the odds of getting cancer when you live past 80 are a lot greater than when you die by your 50s from something else) and a much larger population (it's triple what it was just 60 years ago) and it's a foregone conclusion that you'll see a lot more people getting cancer.



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Man I swear it seems that almost half the people out there are getting diagnosed with Cancer. I live in an area with a very high rate of it. There seems to be no where to hide.



The genetic defects and causes of cancer have existed since the earliest days of homo sapiens but the environmental causes have most certainly increased.


People used to die of other stuff (flu, TB, infections, typhoid, whatever) before they got cancer. As we cure the old reapers of humanity, the remaining ones gain prominence. Couple that with longer lifespans (the odds of getting cancer when you live past 80 are a lot greater than when you die by your 50s from something else) and a much larger population (it's triple what it was just 60 years ago) and it's a foregone conclusion that you'll see a lot more people getting cancer.



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Diagnosed with it at age 50. Lucky me. Every Oncologist office and Radiology office I've been to has had a full waiting room. Seemed to be mostly people my age. It is such a nasty, cruel illness. Another thing not mentioned, is how it financially destroys many people. Even people with health insurance.

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No doubt about that. You are expected to pay for the privilege of not dying at once.

You can see where the conspiracy theorists get their ideas from---would a company put out a sure cure if it only cost a grand, instead of relying on the prolonged money maker that is traditional chemo and radiation?




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You can see where the conspiracy theorists get their ideas from---would a company put out a sure cure if it only cost a grand, instead of relying on the prolonged money maker that is traditional chemo and radiation?




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The problem I have with conspiracies like that is that there would need to be way too many people involved leaving way too much of a paper/electronic trail. It would be impossible to keep secret.

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#4349249 - 04/05/17 03:07 PM Re: The Big "C" [Re: F4UDash4]  
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Not really. All you need to do is fudge the efficacy of a treatment, make it seem like it won't work, and you can have it thrown in the discard pile. It would only take a couple of people to bury it at an early stage.

Yes, if it got thru trials and testing and they'd prepared to roll it out and THEN canned it that would be hard to cover up.



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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer


The problem I have with conspiracies like that is that there would need to be way too many people involved leaving way too much of a paper/electronic trail. It would be impossible to keep secret.



Exactly. And a cancer cure would mean huge bucks to the one that came up with the cure, and they wouldn't care one bit about the other cancer med producers losing money.


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You might reduce your risk with lifestyle, but you can't eliminate it. Everyone is at risk so everyone wants a cure, even the pharmaceuticals, I would think.

F4UDash4, sorry about your wife. It sounds like it was detected early, thank goodness. We had our first scare last year which turned out benign (she still had the lump removed) and it's made us even that much more diligent to keep current with screenings.



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