 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | You will hear us say "we all can respond to the same or similar treatment differently" and that's because it's true. Some breeze through, some have a horrible time from day one but most of us start to feel the effects of concurrent chemo/rad around the 4th week and we get progressively worst until the 3rd week POST Tx with the few weeks post Tx our worse. Make sure he gets plenty of water daily (minimum 48ozs), consumes 2500+ calories each and every day and stays on top of his pain. Keep after his cancer team and make them aware of everything. Also ask us any question or vent 24/7. That's what we are really good at because between the patients and the caregivers we have assembled on this site at any one point, we have probably been there done it. As you have probably been told an HPV+ Dx is a good thing.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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