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Anyone had plexus nerve block for cancer pain?

Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Feb 25 2:24pm | Replies (28)

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@beatrixlee

Yes! It seemed to take about a week for the before and after became noticeable, but my husband, stage 4 inoperable pancreatic cancer, no longer takes any pain medication. I must Tell you, however, that all through Folfirinox and radiation treatments, he never had pain. Pain only started about 2 1/2 months after stopping all treatment because he didn’t want any more chemo. Then he took 2 Hydrocodones every 6 hours with Ibuprofen for breakthrough pain. After the plexus block, he has no pain. He is, however, now in home hospice for about two weeks , for a week now everything has gone downhill, he can no longer leave his bed and no longer eats. He will probably leave us in the next few days, but he has no pain.

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Dear BeatrixLee, I am so sorry. Thank you for taking the time to write. I am glad he was almost pain free throughout.

You brought up another point. Do you have any concerns regarding home hospice?

My husband has to disentangle the pancreatic re-emergent tumor causing nerve pain on shoulders and back—best managed with low doses of opioid causing pain from constipation in the gut with peritoneal metastasis contributing.