Dear Dana,
JDHOVS@aol.com
The pain that your dad is experiencing may be this: First, the chemo
causes, as it should, toxicity in the body and adds to constipation.
When there is much constipation there there tends to be pains around the
body. Now, I am not a doctor, but it sounds like if he licks the
constipation and becomes regular that will solve some of the discomfort.
I would suggest he immediately call his doctor to prescribe a treatment
to relieve constipation. We overcame this by doing the following.
The night prior to chemo and during the morning of chemo, my Barb took
two tablespoons of milk of magnesia.
One day prior to and during the next week or two to increase water
consumption to 1 gal a day. This will do two things. Help with
regularity and avoid liver/kidney damage from toxicity of chemo.
He should eat about 6 little meals a day, and those things that are fat
free and for a day or so no salads. Things to eat are potatoes, rice and
beans.
Ask his oncologist about Ethyol, which is a new drug to be administered
with cisplatin to avoid kidney damage.
HOPe this info helps.
God Bless
marty
JDHOVS wrote:
>
> hello to all
> my dad is not doing very well, i don't know if you recall his condition so in
> brief he has nsclc mets to bone. dgzin97 went thru radiation and chemo
> (taxol). he did great
> nov97 was told he was cancer free. then march98 it's BACK. this time he got
> cicplatmin and navelbine. after the first treatment he was knock off his feet.
> did not respond wel at all . onc because his blood counts were so low,he could
> not recieve chemo as scheduled. now he is on navelbine only once a week. but
> he is very tired and weak. he reacted so well to chemo his first tome, this
> time it seem as if chemo is killing him. I really hate this disease. its just
> awful, anyways he is very constipated. it seems as though we have tried every
> thing for it, yet notheing is working. hes complaining of cramps a ray of pain
> from one side of his hip to the other. please if anyone has any suggestions
> please let me know, oh yeah he also has real bad dry mouth this time.
> you are in my prayers
>
> thanx
> dana
>
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