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Aggressive Bladder Cancer: Tips to help hold meds in bladder?
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@jimg56
You said it depends on the RN doing the treatment and if things are positioned just right, he’s able to hold it. Can you give more details about that. I started Gem/Doc treatments and I’m having a difficult time holding them in.
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@sirich, how are you doing with treatment?
@sirich What you have said makes alot of sense to me. I have just had my second of monthly maintenance doses of Gem/Doc, having previously had 6 weekly doses.
This one was the worse one. The nurse was training another nurse and didn’t seem as focused on me as usual and I felt most uncomfortable throughout the whole process, and had a terrible time holding it in for the 90mins.
I always have the same nurse and I will ask her why it would have been so bad the last time when I go for my next monthly procedure.
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@sirich
Hi,
I am not exactly sure but I find that depending on the nurse that does the
Treatment makes a difference. I think if the inserted balloon is perhaps just in the right spot he can hold the gem for at least an hour. They put a clamp on the tube also to help it from flowing out. With some nurses i can tell by my husbands face he feels nothing with other nurses he cringes. Some are slow and careful some are a little faster. He was able to hold in the bcg with no problem because it is a lesser amount.
Do they clamp off the tube for you?
Not sure it will help but worth a shot.