Adverse reaction

jorob — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 22:25:32 GMT

I haven't been here for a while and thought I'd let you know how I am going. I was diagnosed with Small Cell Lung Cancer in February this year and decided against chemo or radiotherapy.

For quite a while I went along really well - no need for any medications. Then I started to have pain and I was started on low dose oral morphine. That worked really well for and I simply carried on. Eventually I was taking enough of the oral morphine that they decided to put me onto MS Contin - the slow release morphine.

That turned out to be a bit of a disaster for me, because I had an rather disconcerting reaction to that. My throat started to close up and I had difficulty swallowing. The secretions thickened in my throat and I could get them neither up nor down.

Various other medications over a fortnight helped clear that problem up, but no more MS Contin for me. I am now at the stage where I can swallow almost properly again now, and to help control the breathlessness I can and do take small doses of Ordine. I do have to take things a bit more slowly now, and rest more frequestly.

For the pain I now use the Norspan patches. Been using them for a fortnight now and they do seem to be working. Of course they cause the same constipation problems, but Coloxyl and Senna take care of that.

I'm doing OK for now

Re: Adverse reaction

sch — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 11:45:17 GMT

Congratulations!

Thanks for updating us.

Yes, morphine can be pretty nasty stuff. If I can at all avoid it, I do.

If you don't mind me asking, if you decided against chemo and radiotherapy, did you decide to have other treatment?

How are you otherwise, outside of all the medical stuff?

-s

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