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Has anyone used a Reliefband to help with nausea?
A friend suggested this to me - supposedly due to pulsed currents to the median nerve it helps control nausea while undergoing immunotherapy and/or chemotherapy. It sounds a little suspect to me but I'm open to hearing what results it's had on anyone who may have used it during treatment as I embark upon my own immunotherapy.
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lol. I’m a proud mom of three and delighted grandmom of another three: a grandson of 13 who lives nearby in AZ, a 7 year I’d granddaughter and youngest grandson who’s 4 in California. I’ve had several skin cancers in my life, all detected and treated due to proper surveillance. Fair warning: this is much more than that.
We’d rented a house this past summer to be near the two little ones and train a new puppy - it was a delightful two months except for the fact I developed what I believed was a flare of diverticulitis that persisted until after we returned home in September when I requested my nurse practitioner order a CT scan to confirm the diagnosis.
When I downloaded the report the next day, I saw the scan revealed an incidental finding of a new 9mm lung nodule that had not been there on a scan performed a year earlier when I’d been hospitalized for an unrelated issue. My nursing background alerted me to this cause for concern, especially based on my history nearly 5 years earlier of an unusual melanoma (as it didn’t meet the normal presentation) on my cheek that required a wide resection - even though it I’d been assured all margins were clear.
That prompted me to immediately apply for evaluation at Mayo’s Lung Nodules Clinic where I submitted all my pertinent medical records. I underwent a consultation, had some basic diagnostics, then had a robotic biopsy to confirm the diagnosis: metastatic melanoma - still surprising, upsetting, sobering. Thankfully further diagnostics revealed no further spread. I met with an oncologist, explored my options and ready to embark on treatment.
The short answer to your question: I was totally asymptomatic! Like many of these lung nodules, it was found by chance. I consider myself very fortunate, I start immunotherapy with Keytruda today and remain confident I’ll be spending many more joyful years as a grammato3!
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1 ReactionI realize I replied to an inquiry that was not intended for me as I read the entries early this morning before leaving for my first treatment and I *may* have been somewhat nervous! But now my history is out there and hopefully it can help alert others to follow up on any suspicious findings.