YQM

I could ramble on and on too. Like you I get so frustrated with the medicine. His nausea is the generic for zofran. The doctor ordered to take every 8 hours as needed. They only will give me 8 pills at a time. I have to go every other day to pick up his pills. My husband is diabetic, has parkinson's and of course the pancreatic cancer. His CT scans show no metastatsis in the area of the pancreas or colon. His has gone to the lung. I get so frustrated with the CT scans. The one CT before the last said he had a soft tissue mass in the abdomen. The next CT scan said there was no growth. After thinking about it I thought maybe that mass could be from his inguinal hernia repair. Sure enough that is what it was. He still gets around on his own by is getting confused. He was in REhab for 7 weeks at the beginning of the year because of a UTI. One good thing is he does have an appetite. May I ask where you live.

Thanks so much for your comment. How is your husband doing now? It is so nice to hear from someone else. Did your husband get hiccups?

Hi YQM - Welcome to the site and I hope we can be helpful to you. I have the same question for you as FreeBird: what chemo drug were they giving you? I do understand that there are others that have slightly less rigororous side-effects (such as Abraxane), so you might want to discuss this with your doctor (if you haven't already). But I certainly respect your decision and the reasons behind it. I'm facing a renewed round (or, rather, rounds) of chemo and have to figure out which drug will be used and what the long term impact(s) will be. Mostly, I guess that like you, I'll need to figure out how long I can stand the treatments....
Best of luck to you and please let us know if we can be helpful in any way. JMS

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