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Living with lung cancer - Introduce yourself & come say hi
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@dunsmorej54,
Hello, I’m sorry you are going through this g through this. Does your husband take prescription anti nausea pills to curb the nausea? They helped my husband tremendously and also noticed if he has something light in his stomach to absorb some of the stomach acid, it helps too. The trick is to take the pills BEFORE he gets sick. First sign of nausea. Also, there are other immunotherapy medications out there. Has the subject of switching come up with his oncologist? You can always get a second opinion and weigh the difference, if any. My husband takes Tecentriq ( Atezolizumab) and had it along with his chemo treatments and the doctor kept him on same one. He’s only had 1 immunotherapy treatment alone so far but had zero side effects. Everyone is different so maybe a switch would help?
Ultimately, it is your husband’s choice on whether to do treatment or not. Palliative care would mean he steps back from treatment all together and they would intervene to treat side effects from the cancer effect on his body. I don’t think it is something you can do for a time and then go back to treatment.
I know this disease STINKS and I hope you both can find peace in the decisions and journey that is before you. Sending you HUGS!!,
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@ohiogal8860 palliative care has been with us since he found out and they prescribe all of his medications they are such a big help they always work with us to make sure he's staying comfortable and dealing with everything. The immunotherapy he has been getting since he started chemo is keytruda...he no longer can do chemo but has continued the immunotherapy he's on his 9th round of it and she keeps saying she has to monitor to see if everything goin on are side effects..he's been sick a lot...he does take nausea meds first thing in the morning with some toast before he takes any other meds. He sweats and is freezing all night...last night he had to change shirts 4 times because he soaks right through them...his cough is out of control and this goes on for weeks at a time and the cancer Dr keeps saying he needs to let them know but when we do she gets upset because it's getting in the way of his treatments so we are confused. After his palliative care appt a few days ago they suggested that he transfer to the oncology dept they just opened at the hospital here it's affiliated with the one he currently goes to but we travel a half hour to get there so maybe a new Dr and having them try a different drug would be a good direction to go....he told palliative care that the current oncologist is the whole reason he wants to stop doing his treatments.