I am a bit unclear about this as from what I have read is that symptoms can vary. I was having chills with a lot of pain for 4-6 hours followed by sweating buckets for 4-6 hours. With the pain reducing the last half of the sweating part. I am on pain meds and the pain was controlled other than when this happened every week or so. I did end up in the hospital with sepsis shock I think. My blood pressure was 70/40. CT scan showed my liver, spleen, and ascending large bowl were inflamed and said I had colitis. Blood cultures were positive for bacteria. Follow up CT scan did not show any evidence of cancer and just indicated normal healing of colitis. During this time my cancer CA19-9 markers went up to over 1300. And after the iv antibiotics the numbers are starting back down. I do have other indicators of cancer returning. I sleep a lot and even though I am able to eat my weight continues to drop. Liver numbers have been high with the most effected being my ALP topping out at 1800. This was at the same time as my colitis and looks to me like sepsis. Last blood test showed a reduction back to 1100. I will have another blood test soon to see if liver numbers and cancer marker numbers continue down. I still have my port in place. It was only used once but I see no reason to have another procedure to remove it. I was told by other health care workers they do not use the port as it can cause infection. Guess I could have had the port as a source for some infection. My Whipple was 7-12-24.

How does this compare to what you experienced? Best wishes to all dealing with cancer.