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Lung Health | Last Active: Apr 23 6:13pm | Replies (8)
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When you ask ‘limit in treatment’ are you referring to how many times they put me on prednisone? It was mentioned by my oncologist at one time that I might be on it for a longer period. Keeping my fingers crossed that the way my pulmonologist is tapering me off by 1mg every month and adding clarithromycin is going to do it. Before I was tapering down every week by 2.5mg and when I get to 5, inflammation comes back. I had 15courses of radiation over 3weeks period. They think mine was a result of the chemo I was on at the time as it had 2% chance of to cause pneumonitis.
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The prednisone is to stop the inflammation and scarring in the lungs. I was thinking about how certain treatments can cause pneumonitis in the lungs. Pneumonitis is a serious complication because it causes scarring in the lungs and lung tissue is lost. That means reduced lung capacity. People with lung cancer must consider how to conserve lung tissue when looking at treatments. I have been told that I cannot do certain treatments because of my pneumonitis episode.