Christine,

Thank you for your reply. We are new at the picc line. The nurse has shown me how to clean, flush and change the IV bag and I am to do it for the next 40 days.

Yesterday was my wife's the first infusion. All day she felt very nauseated and she had a splitting headache. Today she felt much better.

The dentist we see specializes with cancer patients and was recommended to us by USC Kenneth Norris Cancer Center an we have been seeing him for the last five years. We liked him and he is a very good. He was skeptical of the osteomyelitis diagnosis of the MRI report.

We have never seen a prostiodontist. What is their specialty? We would be interested in seeing one at this point in the hope of finding out what really is causing the pain. Can anyone recommend one in the Southern California area?

Our ENT has recommended hyperbaric oxygen treatments after my wife finishes the IV antibiotic regimen. Our dentist also has strongly recommended the HBO treatments and he has advised that he will not do any tooth extractions without HBO treatments.

Would root canal work require HBO treatments first? My wife has a tooth with large filling near the area where the jaw pain is. The root has never been removed.

Thank you for your help.