Thanks for the responses everyone. I will definitly ask my doctor if I can get one, no painful sticking sounds great!!

Brenda, the treatment I'm on is not typical for the US either- it's because my pathology is very rare so there's no set treatment. I don't have squamous cell like most people here, I have spindle cell and it also has some sarcoma elements(a different kind of cancer). So they are doing the cisplatin/Erbitux with a "wait and see" approach. The other people I've seen on this board with mets are on something similar to yours, a combo of chemo drugs for a set amount, then it can be repeated later.
I'm like a one-woman clinical trial wink
Melissa

Age 36. Four years of fighting Stage 4 Skull Base Cancer
Can't even fit it in the signature line. I've tried it all! 5 surgeries, IMRT, cyberknife, cisplatin, erbitux, AIM, taxotere, carboplatin.