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Stopping Chemoimmunotherapy Treatments
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Thank you so much for your post. I’m truly sorry for what your husband and you are going through. My prayers are for your family. I can understand why he stopped. I don’t know what your state laws are or what your beliefs are, but, the only thing that has helped me with nausea and lack of interest in food and drink is medical cannabis in the form of gummies or drops. I can’t smoke pot because it makes me cough so bad. I haven’t been a person to use cannabis but the cancer center I went to plus other people suggested it. I don’t believe I would be alive today without it.
The medicine in the immunotherapy is a combination of the “medicine” they tell you about plus one of three others. Both are “chemo”. I know Hollis Cancer center in Lakeland,FL, don’t tell you this. The main medicine of immunotherapy is also chemo which they never told me. You can find this info by researching on this site.
I had 12 chemo treatments and 30-33 radiation treatments and if I knew then what I know now (which I asked over and over), I wouldn’t go through any treatment.
I hope you check out or even research on the cannabis; THC 10 mg is what helps me with the nausea and not able to eat. The CBD helps with pain. It will depend on your husband on the amount he would need and how often.
Hospice wouldn’t help me because I didn’t have a DNR.
God bless, Frandy
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Please try him on the THC smoke, gummies or drops; you have nothing to lose. I was on 3 different anti-nausea meds that didn’t help. Shouldn’t Hospice be giving him anti-nausea medication through an IV or will they do that?
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Thanks for your response. My husband does not have a dnr so he is full code. Hospice did not say he had to be dnr for them to be involved, just let us know that if he goes into cardiac arrest and I have to call an ambulance that then their services will be done. But if he lives through that then we can reapply. A friend of ours got him some RSO oil from her medical marijuana dispensary. He did not follow the directions and was stoned out of his mind for 3 days. I thought he was dying until my son came and saw him and told me that my husband was just really high. I told my friend to not get him anymore even if he calls and asks. In fact, he has abused his pain meds since being with hospice so they are only giving him a 3 day supply of his meds at a time. He is not happy but he did not say anything to her. He is not feeling well today and very well may be in withdrawal. I am pretty naive when it comes to addiction but he has abused his pain meds for years. So he will need to take his meds the right way from now on. He does have nausea medicine but refuses to take it. So that is on him.