Gabapentin AKA neurontin works great for nerve pain. Ask your doc for a prescription for this in liquid form. Being in pain is not easy, its actually very detrimental to the patient. Get your doc working on somethign strong enough to manage the pain. Maybe the fentanyl patch would be a good option? Follow all directions exactly especially never bending, cut, tear, fold, rip or otherwise break the patch. Also do not take long hot baths or showers while wearing the patch as it will cause the patch to release too much medicine which can cause an overdose. fentanyl is the strongest pain medicine on the market and it comes in various strengths. It will take about 24 hours after placed for the first one to kick in and then you just put a new patch on every 3 days in a different spot. Very easy, and it works!

You must take in at least 48-64 oz of water every single day. Make sure you tell your doc about red urine. It could be blood in it??? Its especially important on chemo days to drink even more to flush the poisons out of your body. Chemo can be very hard on the kidneys which is why red urine is such a concern.


Christine
SCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44
2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07
-65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr
Clear PET 1/08
4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I
surg 4/16/08 clr marg
215 HBO dives
3/09 teeth out, trismus
7/2/09 recur, Stg IV
8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy
3wks medicly inducd coma
2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit
PICC line IV antibx 8 mo
10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg
OC 3x in 3 years
very happy to be alive smile