Thank you so much Joy for your reply. I'm glad you are doing everything you can to research and support your husband. He is very lucky to have you. Did he at all suffer from shakes after first finding out the news?I'm not sure if its my Mum's body reacting to the shock of it all or something that follows with the disease.  @joy1 wrote: I researched everything when my husband was diagnosed with lung cancer. Whatever I found and read sounded so positive but it ended up having no scientific evidence to back it up.   Some of the natural therapy products were tested by allot of scientists but riven not positive in combatting cancer.   The chemists analysed all the products I came up to use but they were incompatible with my husbands treatment plan.   The doctors analysed everything  if it works for a very few it is a fluke.   I give him good food lots of love and follow the doctors.   I pray that every day he is with us he has a chance of being with us longer and a cure will be found   It affects everyone  in the family forever.   BUT try everything because no one knows.      ... View more

Two thumbs up for you on having advice on this - I'd suggest going into more detail and putting it in "TREATMENT AND SIDE EFFECTS" if you have time (as chemo is when you're in mid-treatment. I had awful awful constipation, which caused tearing, bleeding and gut-wrenching pain.  I think I was unlucky - and my experience was on the more severe end of this known side effect ..   But anybody looking into preparation, or in mid treatment, should DEFINITELY factor chemo constipation into their plans.  You won't regret it.  Hell, even just taking prune juice and 2x the normal amount of water might mitigate the problem a little .. but I think there needs to be a treatment thread dedicated to this, listing out the experiences (so people will take caution) and the best solutions (like the medicine mentioned in this thread) ... View more