schmaydee

di, i cant understand that..my dr was all over the pci thing... i use the sarah cannon bunch and tn oncology.....last night i was "violently ill"...until about 3am...... ....s

ever since i started pci (from the very first day) i have had nausea,diarhea and chills (for 2 weeks). at first i thought it must be the flu or something but it seems to get worse as the pci treatments continue.......anyone else have (or hear of) probs like this w/pci? thanks..... s..

many thanks to everyone!...... i go to the ent thurs....hopefully he'll have good news.... ....s

..when they did the bronchioscopy(?)....to get the biopsy of my cancer they messed up my vocal chords. i can talk but just barely.....anyone had this happen?......this was 4-5 months ago and its not better..... .....s

oh yeah.... i smoked 3-5 packs a day (seriously)... started when i was 13 (i'm 49 now)..... i quit when i was dx'd in june... i was so sick w/pnuemonia,collapsed lung,then chemo radiation etc i really didnt have that hard of a time....i used the patch for a week or two. i completed chemo/rad about 4 weeks ago and i'm feeling really good now....but now i'm starting to get the urge... i dont think i'll start back as long as everything is going well but if i get mets elsewhere or cant get rid of the cancer in my lung (i'll find out about that tomorrow) there's a real good chance i'll start back..... ...s

i really hope she quits.... .... but we have a 15-25% chance of living 5yrs.... most of us will die w/in 1-2.......i hate that and i wish it wasnt so.....and i'm not trying to depress anyone.....if she's been through chemo/rad and the cancer has come back, i dont think quitting now is gonna save her.....if she wants to smoke (or dance naked at wal-mart) i wouldnt bug the crap out of her to stop.....i'd support her whatever she wanted to do for whatever time she has left...... ........s

...well... i'm starting to feel a lot better. last friday i made myself walk (about a mile) and i've been doing it every day... feeling quite a bit better.... thanks all.... ....s

sdianneb, sounds like youre really getting along well.... i've put all my stuff in storage and moved out of my apt in nashville until i get well enough to work again...i'm in ky now spending a little time w/my mom.... we do have a lot in common....i think youre about a week or two ahead of me (i finished my last chemo sept 24)....i believe youre a lot more active than me...i'm pretty much a slug... i'm not really sure how much to excercise (and dont feel like doing it at all)..... ......s

....just completed my chemo (6 carboplatin/vp16) and (35) radiation treatments 3 weeks ago....i'm still having a lot of trouble eating and i'm still very weak.... how long does it take to get over chemo/rad ? thanks, ...s

there's no trick to it, you just quit...and you dont have to have patches,pills,hypnosis or anything else... i smoked 3-5 packs (winston 100s) for the last 30+ years....i've been off of 'em (since dx sclc...2-3 months)....it isnt a matter of whether you can..... it just a matter of if you will......1000s of people do it everyday.... if you want to live and/or "limit the suffering" you'll have to go through you had better do it....i'm not trying to be mean but you need to really re-evaluate your situation......you WILL quit...its just a matter of whether or not youre alive when you do it.... ...s

absolutely..... ....s

.....thanks for the replies..... i'm just trying to get a handle on this... find out what to REALLY expect...... there's a lot of folks on here that have it a hell of a lot worse than i do... yeah Di... nashvegas tn. ...i'm doin' the sarah cannon thing @ southern hills but get my rad done at summitt....looks like we have very similar cancer and treatment... thanks to everyone..... ....s

i just signed up here. so good to see folks helping each other as best they can...... i'm 49yrs old & was dx limited stage sclc 6/04... i'm doing pretty well all things considered... i am on the 1st day of my 3rd chemo treatment and about my 12th radiation treatment (about 20 to go)... the doc seems to be pretty sure he can get rid of the tumor (3"X2")...and into remission at some point....(we'll have to see about that). but after that...they want to do cranial rad.... then no tellin' what else.. i was very near death by the time my family got me to go into the hospital...(pnuemnonia, colapsed lung...etc).. i'm not sure if it might not have been better to have just gone on out... i do feel greatly improved since then....but havent really had a day i felt like living since..... i guess mainly i'm thinking back to my dad i lost to esophageal cancer 5 yrs ago..... actually i lost him to the "cancer treatment"..... and the treatment ruined the quality of life he had left.....i would imagine they would have kept trying (something) after he died if we hadnt got him in the ground as quick as we did....(he had great insurance). has anyone EVER gotten to a point where they felt as healthy as before they got sick w/this stuff? ........thanks ....s