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I was wondering if anyone had any useful tips on how to avoid costipation due the drugs? So far I've been using senna, lactlose, drinking a huge amount water, eating lots pears and drinking pear juice and using full cream milk (which I don't usually as it tends to give me the runs). I've also tried accupunture and accupressure as well as seeing the doctor to switch to non-codeine based pain relief. The doc also gave me an enema to administer. So far no joy. I am trying to eat as per usual but knowing that things are backing up doesn't help the cause.

Hi, have just discovered this series and you will ask "where have you been" under a rock actually....anyway....I laugh, cry and I can really relate to it...maybe you will too!

so while this isnt all about my dad.... i found out that i am officially being "terminated" from my job. even tho i havent been back to work since my car accident in may 2010. im not entirely sure if this is good or bad news yet because their insurance company is denying a permanent injury... but the letter they sent is acknowledging a permanent injury. BUT.... my dad finally ate food yesterday!!!!!! it was just clear soup but he managed to get 2 and a half cups down and wants more... he says he is starving and in all honesty... i didnt think this would happen for a few more weeks.

It was my chemo today and it almost didn't happen. My liver markers up way up and they were worried that it might not cope with the chemo. For some they had increased over the past week. I can't help but wonder if diet had anything to do with it as I was a little silly over the week. Another blood test this morning showed that things were starting to come down. I was eternally thankful to hear that news. So the chemo went ahead. The only worry is now along the lines of how good my liver is.

Hello everyone it has been a long time since i have been on this site, in fact i didn't spend much time on here after my initial contact with here but i thought i would update my story and see if it strikes a chord with anyone. I'm a 35 year old male living and working in Melbourne. I have Follicular Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Stage 4a, with bone marrow involved.

I have a new life-threatening condition, and it's not cancer. My new condition was picked up in a CT scan done at the end of chemotherapy. This CT was done to re-stage my cancer, but what it actually did was save my life. I have a blood clot, in the lungs. It turns out that cancer is an independent risk factor for developing blood clots. This means that cancer alone predisposes someone to developing a clot. Cancer treatments like surgery and chemotherapy also increase the chances that someone will develop a clot. Read the full blog post at: http://benbbrave.blogspot.com/