Posted on 10/01/2011 6:38:09 PM PDT by Kevin in California
When you have nausea from chemo-therapy and you can’t keep anything down how do you get relief from a pill that you have to swallow?
Well so the anti I want to control everyone will tell you there are other drugs for this but having watched someone try to take these drugs and know that most do not work at all that I have no problem with anyone using anything that helps them make it through the days.Some neurological pains can not even be touched by anything that doesn’t make you unconscious so if smoking makes it so someone can stand and function rather than sleep their lives away I see no harm.
My father was a physician who died from the complications of lung cancer. He underwent radiation therapy and I watched as he gagged on his favorite dinner, a very nice Porter House steak, due to the treatments. Chemo-therapy causes far worse nausea than radiation. He watched his life-long friend and cousin go through chemo before he died from his own cancer and my father swore he would never undergo that and he didn't.
As a physician for over 30 years I think he would have known of and used an anti-nausea Rx if there had been one.
I’m sorry to hear that.I am sure you are right no one would willingly go through that if there was a way to avoid it.I watched my own father die in 1999 from esophageal cancer and it was not a good way to go.My father did not have chemo they did not think he was strong enough to go through it by the time they found it.From diagnosis and dead was a short 6 weeks which what he went through I see now as a blessing but even that was pure h*ll.
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