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Stopping Octreotide???
My liver enzymes are very elevated Not sure if it is from my Bland Embolization I had done in January Or from my 9 rounds...
Last active: Nov 11, 2024
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Pain post Octreotide injections
Hi, My mom has recently been diagnosed with NET Grade 1 and the doctor has suggested her Octreotide 30mg. She has taken a couple of...
Last active: Sep 5, 2023
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Rash/Hives with Octreotide injection
My husband has taken the Octreotide injection now for about 2.5 years. This past summer he started breaking into a rash/hives on the face &...
Last active: Jan 15, 2024
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Octreotide Injections - Skipping One or More?
Following completion of PRRT treatment, my wife has been receiving monthly octreotide (Sandostatin LAR) injections.She will be out - of -town when the next injection...
Last active: Nov 27, 2023
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Clay colored bowels & diarrhea side effects with Octreotide
Anyone have the above side effects? I was reading that the shot could effect your liver enzymes? I have non-functioning (no symptoms) metastatic tumors in...
Last active: Jan 27 2:29pm
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Liver function (birirubin, globulin, glucose, iron) and Octreotide
Started Octreotide shot in Dec. Labs show Bilirubin going from .7 to 1.1 to 1.5 in three months, iron is 25 and % saturation is...
Last active: Mar 25 8:47pm
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NETS Mesentery, Small Bowel Resection, Lanreotide, Octreotide, Story
Maybe my story helps somebody. I've had well differentiated Nets for a while now. A review early last year of a 2019 CT confirmed mesenteric...
Last active: Jul 27, 2024
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Tumor w/ minor grow with no Octreotide & larger growth w/ the shot
I was diagnosed with metastatic neuroendocrine cancer in the liver 4cm x 3.1 cm in Sept. Grade 2, non-functioning, well differentiated KCI 6-8%. My MRI...
Last active: May 17 6:04pm
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Life expectancy with NETs and lifetyle as it progresses
What is my life expectancy as a result of my NET? Diagnosed 3 years ago with Grade 1, Stage 4 NETs. Primary tumor is probably...
Last active: Jun 1, 2023
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NET and neuropathy
20 months after NET found in small intestine and already spread to liver. I have had resection, monthly octreotide injections, and Lutathera. The cancer seemed...
Last active: Jul 31 12:33pm