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<blockquote data-quote="Blackwater5" data-source="post: 2516691" data-attributes="member: 552414"><p>Thanks for the info on you Riva. At least you have been living with cancer for a year already. I probably don't have4 that long.</p><p>I've known people with cancer including a good freind years ago who I was with when she went into hospital for the last time and she had a blood cancer that was controlled for many years and is often curable these days. </p><p>You are also lucky that you have family. I think its important to count your blessings.</p><p>For me, I've not been feeling well for maybe 18 months and have talked to many GPs frequently and actually saw one face to face twice. During the COVID lockdown doctors wouldn't see you unless they thought it an emergency and even now most consultations are by telephone. So the first one I spoke to told me I needed to eat more because I was losing weight although I had been overweight before. When I told him I had stomach pains he did the ests for stomach ulcers, urinary tract infections and so on, actually saw me to feel my stomach, and said I had IBS when the tests came back normal. I carried on losing weight and started to get diabetic symptoms, he tested for diabetes, my HB1ac was just in the prediabetic range, so I got a few dietary instructions. After a few months and blood tests I was just in the diabetic range so the diabetic nurse gave me information about diet and exercise and I was told I had Type 2. My levels continued increasing quickly so I was given lipigliptin which gave me a horrible autoimmune skin disease called pemphigoid. The gliptins were stopped, I was given a 2 week course of steroids but nobody bothered telling me or any doctor that I had to gradually reduce them so I stopped when I'd finished the original dose and the blisters came back. During this time I was still losing weight and my HB1ac was still going up, the gliptins may have slowed the rise but I still have some of the effects of it. I was then given Jardiance which, with diet, brought my sugars to normal but I was still losing weight. About 5 months ago I saw a different, part-time doctor who did a lot of blood tests which showed a slightly lower white blood cell count and slightly lower platelets. Foinaly, within the last month, with me looking like a walking skeleton, I had a CT scan within 2 weeks which showed that I had a large mass in my panceas and a small amount of cancer in my lungs. I was told this just over 2 days ago.</p><p></p><p>I am alone, no longer have family or close friends and have been very isolated due yto CPVID and since things opened up because I've been feeling too ill to go out and mix with people. The closest I have to a freind is an almost blind neighbour in her nineties. So the news that my pancreatic cancer couldn't be treated although chemotherapy was a possibility if I was well enough, was and is something I haven't been able to process yet. I've started making preparations, first for my cat who is my companion and I suppose you could call my family. I have a lot to do, including telling my sister-in-law. She and my late husband were 20 years apart in age so they were never close and after she had some big upheavals in her life3 we just vexchange Christmas cards, but I couldn't de4cide when the best time is to call her.</p><p></p><p>The hospital wants to do a biopsy but, thinking about it I wonder what the point is unless it's to decide if I can have chemotherapy.. I don't think I want that as the effects are so bad. So I was told I might have a year but I know that pancreatic cancer, even if caught very early when surgery is possible, has about a 25% success rate. When it has spread most people don't have long.</p><p>I was told it would be painless but I don't believe that. Maybe if you are on heavy painkillers it is. I've talen no more than paracetomol so far but I expect that will change. The reason for the weight loss is that the pancreas makes enzymes for digestion and if it is damaged you can't absorb nutrients from your food, so I've been given pig enzyme capsules yeserday. In the same way the pancreas slows and eventually stops making insulin if you have something that damages it too much, so maybe I'll have to go onto insulin.</p><p>The way I feel now I don't think I have long to go. But I wish that I'd been sent for a scan early on as just about the only symptom I didn't have was jaundice.</p><p></p><p>Livi9ng in the UK healthcare is free but has been underfunded for years and COVID has probably killed more people who had health problems that either weren't diagnosed or weren't treated. Even chemotherapy was stopped. And today on the news I heard that there has been a big rise in cancer cases in my part of England since things opened up.</p><p></p><p>Assisted dying is still illegal here. There have been several attempts to change the law but there is a big lobby against it.</p><p>I now take so many pills I feel as though I must rattle.</p><p></p><p>I'll finish this by wishing you luck on your journey.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blackwater5, post: 2516691, member: 552414"] Thanks for the info on you Riva. At least you have been living with cancer for a year already. I probably don't have4 that long. I've known people with cancer including a good freind years ago who I was with when she went into hospital for the last time and she had a blood cancer that was controlled for many years and is often curable these days. You are also lucky that you have family. I think its important to count your blessings. For me, I've not been feeling well for maybe 18 months and have talked to many GPs frequently and actually saw one face to face twice. During the COVID lockdown doctors wouldn't see you unless they thought it an emergency and even now most consultations are by telephone. So the first one I spoke to told me I needed to eat more because I was losing weight although I had been overweight before. When I told him I had stomach pains he did the ests for stomach ulcers, urinary tract infections and so on, actually saw me to feel my stomach, and said I had IBS when the tests came back normal. I carried on losing weight and started to get diabetic symptoms, he tested for diabetes, my HB1ac was just in the prediabetic range, so I got a few dietary instructions. After a few months and blood tests I was just in the diabetic range so the diabetic nurse gave me information about diet and exercise and I was told I had Type 2. My levels continued increasing quickly so I was given lipigliptin which gave me a horrible autoimmune skin disease called pemphigoid. The gliptins were stopped, I was given a 2 week course of steroids but nobody bothered telling me or any doctor that I had to gradually reduce them so I stopped when I'd finished the original dose and the blisters came back. During this time I was still losing weight and my HB1ac was still going up, the gliptins may have slowed the rise but I still have some of the effects of it. I was then given Jardiance which, with diet, brought my sugars to normal but I was still losing weight. About 5 months ago I saw a different, part-time doctor who did a lot of blood tests which showed a slightly lower white blood cell count and slightly lower platelets. Foinaly, within the last month, with me looking like a walking skeleton, I had a CT scan within 2 weeks which showed that I had a large mass in my panceas and a small amount of cancer in my lungs. I was told this just over 2 days ago. I am alone, no longer have family or close friends and have been very isolated due yto CPVID and since things opened up because I've been feeling too ill to go out and mix with people. The closest I have to a freind is an almost blind neighbour in her nineties. So the news that my pancreatic cancer couldn't be treated although chemotherapy was a possibility if I was well enough, was and is something I haven't been able to process yet. I've started making preparations, first for my cat who is my companion and I suppose you could call my family. I have a lot to do, including telling my sister-in-law. She and my late husband were 20 years apart in age so they were never close and after she had some big upheavals in her life3 we just vexchange Christmas cards, but I couldn't de4cide when the best time is to call her. The hospital wants to do a biopsy but, thinking about it I wonder what the point is unless it's to decide if I can have chemotherapy.. I don't think I want that as the effects are so bad. So I was told I might have a year but I know that pancreatic cancer, even if caught very early when surgery is possible, has about a 25% success rate. When it has spread most people don't have long. I was told it would be painless but I don't believe that. Maybe if you are on heavy painkillers it is. I've talen no more than paracetomol so far but I expect that will change. The reason for the weight loss is that the pancreas makes enzymes for digestion and if it is damaged you can't absorb nutrients from your food, so I've been given pig enzyme capsules yeserday. In the same way the pancreas slows and eventually stops making insulin if you have something that damages it too much, so maybe I'll have to go onto insulin. The way I feel now I don't think I have long to go. But I wish that I'd been sent for a scan early on as just about the only symptom I didn't have was jaundice. Livi9ng in the UK healthcare is free but has been underfunded for years and COVID has probably killed more people who had health problems that either weren't diagnosed or weren't treated. Even chemotherapy was stopped. And today on the news I heard that there has been a big rise in cancer cases in my part of England since things opened up. Assisted dying is still illegal here. There have been several attempts to change the law but there is a big lobby against it. I now take so many pills I feel as though I must rattle. I'll finish this by wishing you luck on your journey. [/QUOTE]
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