 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Andy,
Just to point out the darker side. I had "just" 2 cisplatin and 35 IMRT and about 3 weeks into it was sick as a dog. I lost so much weight that I had to be driven to radiation (a 60 mile trip through Bay area traffic) and was pretty much disabled and unable to work for almost 2 years. I was also on 75mg's of Duragesic and morphine tablets for breakthrough pain. Did I mention that I was very healthy going into it, didn't drink or smoke and the techs thought that I weathered things pretty well.
Hopefully your experience won't be so extreme, we all respond differently to trwatment.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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