How has your day been?
Dec 1st 2012, 11:18 pm
#3031
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Re: How has your day been?
Everyone thinks of "chemotherapy" as being the same thing...
Historically chemotherapy was the word used to treat a disease with a chemical, Nowadays it is mainly used to describe the treatment of cancer with chemicals.... some chemotherapy drugs are used in low doses to treat a range of other diseases.... As in this case....
It gets a bit confusing when the name has connotations ......
After my brain tumor I had "chemotherapy"...... But I described it as "some mop up drugs" that I was taking to make sure nothing had escaped.....simply Because, for my friends and family, they would have had visions of me being desparately ill, skeletal, bald and vomiting everywhere..... Which is the vision most people have when you use the term..... And certainly wasn't what I was ...
Does that help explain?
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Dec 1st 2012, 11:28 pm
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Re: How has your day been?
Everyone thinks of "chemotherapy" as being the same thing...
Historically chemotherapy was the word used to treat a disease with a chemical, Nowadays it is mainly used to describe the treatment of cancer with chemicals.... some chemotherapy drugs are used in low doses to treat a range of other diseases.... As in this case....
It gets a bit confusing when the name has connotations ......
After my brain tumor I had "chemotherapy"...... But I described it as "some mop up drugs" that I was taking to make sure nothing had escaped.....simply Because, for my friends and family, they would have had visions of me being desparately ill, skeletal, bald and vomiting everywhere..... Which is the vision most people have when you use the term..... And certainly wasn't what I was ...
Does that help explain?
Historically chemotherapy was the word used to treat a disease with a chemical, Nowadays it is mainly used to describe the treatment of cancer with chemicals.... some chemotherapy drugs are used in low doses to treat a range of other diseases.... As in this case....
It gets a bit confusing when the name has connotations ......
After my brain tumor I had "chemotherapy"...... But I described it as "some mop up drugs" that I was taking to make sure nothing had escaped.....simply Because, for my friends and family, they would have had visions of me being desparately ill, skeletal, bald and vomiting everywhere..... Which is the vision most people have when you use the term..... And certainly wasn't what I was ...
Does that help explain?
I had just never heard that such a drastic treatment for one thing could end up being the cure for another. I am of course just an outsider so know nothing and am open to learning.
Dec 1st 2012, 11:39 pm
#3033
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Re: How has your day been?
In a way it does yes thanks. I knew about different doses and times and things. MIL did indeed go bald.
I had just never heard that such a drastic treatment for one thing could end up being the cure for another. I am of course just an outsider so know nothing and am open to learning.
I had just never heard that such a drastic treatment for one thing could end up being the cure for another. I am of course just an outsider so know nothing and am open to learning.
Really, any drug treatment for any condition can be called chemotherapy. You need penicillin for tonsillitis? You've got yerself some chemotherapy going on. Steroids for arthritis? Again, chemotherapy.
Once you (general you, not specific you) get the hang of how medical terminology works it's actually quite simple to figure out what things mean in lay terms.
Dec 1st 2012, 11:44 pm
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Re: How has your day been?
If you break it down to its root words you have "chemo" which means chemical and "therapy" which of course means therapy. So, you have chemical therapy.
Really, any drug treatment for any condition can be called chemotherapy. You need penicillin for tonsillitis? You've got yerself some chemotherapy going on. Steroids for arthritis? Again, chemotherapy.
Once you (general you, not specific you) get the hang of how medical terminology works it's actually quite simple to figure out what things mean in lay terms.
Really, any drug treatment for any condition can be called chemotherapy. You need penicillin for tonsillitis? You've got yerself some chemotherapy going on. Steroids for arthritis? Again, chemotherapy.
Once you (general you, not specific you) get the hang of how medical terminology works it's actually quite simple to figure out what things mean in lay terms.
Now do you any of you experts know about acute lumbar lordosis - because my 12 yr old has been told she's that crooked and also her "bacino" pelvis is off kilt too....asymetric - not by a lot though.
Dec 1st 2012, 11:45 pm
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Re: How has your day been?
In a way it does yes thanks. I knew about different doses and times and things. MIL did indeed go bald.
I had just never heard that such a drastic treatment for one thing could end up being the cure for another. I am of course just an outsider so know nothing and am open to learning.
I had just never heard that such a drastic treatment for one thing could end up being the cure for another. I am of course just an outsider so know nothing and am open to learning.
The dose I am on is very low and not a cancer dose but it still has its side effects, I have such a level in my blood now that when I wake up the day after taking the pill, the nausea is so strong that I cant get out of bed.
Woke up yesterday and couldnt even go to the kitchen as the smell of anything made me feel sick but I am never actually sick. This will last a couple of days and you also get so tired that you only want to lie on the sofa.
My friends here know what methotrexate does and that it is an old chemo drug but Eddies explanation of it is the best I have heard (even better than my consultant explained it
)When I was first prescribed it, I was terrified when my specialist told me what it was but when Eddie went through it all with me and I am fine with it now. You cant drink on it so I have been alcohol free for 9 weeks which was far harder than I ever imagined it would be.
I go on to injections week after next as they dont cause nausea and she (Eddie) is going to help me with those as well.
Modern medicine is fabulous, cant imagine how crap I would feel without these drugs being available to us.
Dec 1st 2012, 11:53 pm
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Re: How has your day been?
I didnt watch a sad film in the end - I decided to hang on to those tears for another day
The dose I am on is very low and not a cancer dose but it still has its side effects, I have such a level in my blood now that when I wake up the day after taking the pill, the nausea is so strong that I cant get out of bed.
Woke up yesterday and couldnt even go to the kitchen as the smell of anything made me feel sick but I am never actually sick. This will last a couple of days and you also get so tired that you only want to lie on the sofa.
My friends here know what methotrexate does and that it is an old chemo drug but Eddies explanation of it is the best I have heard (even better than my consultant explained it)
When I was first prescribed it, I was terrified when my specialist told me what it was but when Eddie went through it all with me and I am fine with it now. You cant drink on it so I have been alcohol free for 9 weeks which was far harder than I ever imagined it would be.
I go on to injections week after next as they dont cause nausea and she (Eddie) is going to help me with those as well.
Modern medicine is fabulous, cant imagine how crap I would feel without these drugs being available to us.
The dose I am on is very low and not a cancer dose but it still has its side effects, I have such a level in my blood now that when I wake up the day after taking the pill, the nausea is so strong that I cant get out of bed.
Woke up yesterday and couldnt even go to the kitchen as the smell of anything made me feel sick but I am never actually sick. This will last a couple of days and you also get so tired that you only want to lie on the sofa.
My friends here know what methotrexate does and that it is an old chemo drug but Eddies explanation of it is the best I have heard (even better than my consultant explained it
)When I was first prescribed it, I was terrified when my specialist told me what it was but when Eddie went through it all with me and I am fine with it now. You cant drink on it so I have been alcohol free for 9 weeks which was far harder than I ever imagined it would be.
I go on to injections week after next as they dont cause nausea and she (Eddie) is going to help me with those as well.
Modern medicine is fabulous, cant imagine how crap I would feel without these drugs being available to us.
Dec 1st 2012, 11:56 pm
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Dec 2nd 2012, 12:03 am
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Dec 2nd 2012, 12:45 am
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Re: How has your day been?
Cooking my first roast in the barbie 
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Dec 2nd 2012, 12:46 am
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Dec 2nd 2012, 1:21 am
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Re: How has your day been?
Not going so well though
Can't get the BBQ to go over 180oC once I turn off the middle burners (using indirect method) and drops down to about 150oC
Not sure if it's the gas flow/pressure that might be at fault. May need to finish off in the oven Any clues? It's a BeefmasterSmells good though
Dec 2nd 2012, 1:23 am
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Re: How has your day been?
Not going so well though
Can't get the BBQ to go over 180oC once I turn off the middle burners (using indirect method) and drops down to about 150oC Not sure if it's the gas flow/pressure that might be at fault. May need to finish off in the oven Any clues? It's a BeefmasterSmells good though
Sorry - didn;t see that you can't get over 180......dunno then. Is the lid shut properly? Is is windy?
Dec 2nd 2012, 1:24 am
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Re: How has your day been?
Methinks some fortification may be needed to steal my nerves
