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
