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#44199 11-16-2004 11:38 PM | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 28 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | OP  Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 28 | The dexamathasone made Ken goofy, too. He is starting to adjust pretty well to the Fentanyl and it helps his pain quite a bit. He is at 50 mg. now.
Dolores is a fat, brown, black, and white mottled 14 year old spoiled baby. She sleeps with me at night since Ken is in the hospital this week. She terrorizes her brother, Buckwheat at every opportunity. I've raised her well....
Sherry (Dolores is the name of my cat) Wife to Ken, starting chemo/radiation 10/25/04. Stage IV SCC of right tonsil, T2,N2A,MO
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#44200 11-18-2004 11:37 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Sherry,
I was on two 75 (150 total) for a few weeks at the very end. Don't feel you have to worry when pain is involved. With all there is these days, pain should be the easiest to manage. Also, tapering down is easier with the patch because of the way it gradually decreases on its own. Some like to go about a week on each lesser dose and then let the 25 run beyond the 3rd day to about day 5 and it should be fine.
Ed
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
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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