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Has anyone had chemo-induced colitis?

Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Sep 28 7:23am | Replies (14)

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Hi - I had gotten colitis from taking Keytruda (an immunotherapy drug), not from taking chemotherapy. I did take both, at the same time and then just chemo separately. I was one of a very small percentage who got that type of side effect from Keytruda. My intestines became very inflamed so had to then take a steroid which helped to an extent but it persisted so I went to the hospital and was there for five or six weeks. Very painful for my stomach as well so had to take morphine to get through all that - lost a lot of weight - could not eat a thing. Eventually things cleared up as Keytruda does have a long half like so in other words even though I was taken off it the drug was still operating in my system.

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Wow so sorry to hear you went thru all that ! How are you doing now? Did you have any surgery? Only thing good was my tumor shrunk. Hopefully enough for surgery to get it out. After that if they got all cancer I’m thinking of going holistic . There’s a lot of good things out there from nature , and I had been doing several along with the chemo. Maybe that helped me in the long run. I was only in hospital for 2 days, after the blood transfusion (2 bags) and 6 bags of potassium and 2 bags of magnesium. Crazy! Now chemo is on hold and I’m scared to really go back on it!