 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Pay particular attention to the comment about the brain adjusting to water consumption. That is exactly why you wouldn't suddenly cut back, especially during treatment. You prevent the body from being able to function efficiently while processing the waste created by the toxicity of the treatment. The lymphatic system starves and even eosinophils can't carry dead cells through the blood.
Add to that the necessity of muscles and joints to maintain fluids, especially during treatment, which results in pain.
4 liters in an hour would kill just about anyone.
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
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Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
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