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Posted 1/20/2013 8:07 PM (GMT 0)
Please prayers, heading for ER. Fever up, coughing, pain....
Posted 1/20/2013 8:44 PM (GMT 0)
A prayer going out to you.... Hope they get you sorted & back home soon. X
Posted 1/20/2013 8:55 PM (GMT 0)
Passages

Our prayersand loving thoughts are on the way!

Hugs

Bud and MsBud

We will beat this crap
Posted 1/20/2013 8:57 PM (GMT 0)
Sending thoughts and prayers. Hoping for the best!
Posted 1/20/2013 9:00 PM (GMT 0)
Prayers and good thoughts your way.  Keep up updated.   
Posted 1/20/2013 9:07 PM (GMT 0)
That would be a bad thing.

Praying.

Update when you can.

Andrew
Posted 1/20/2013 9:20 PM (GMT 0)
Praying now and continuing to pray after I post this. Keep us updated as you can.
Posted 1/20/2013 9:39 PM (GMT 0)
Hope you have good results in there, I just spent 4 days in the hospital with some type of viral thing presumably, it could not be defined, was not considered the flu. I might have had a reaction from new triple combo durgs I tried and finishing up of SBRT I had on spot radiation to spine. Symptoms were fatigue, chills, fever but none of the other classic flu symptoms, liver function numbers were out of line and WB cells were way high. Has gotten better and back home and still trying to feel normal again. Good luck with whatever you are handling.
Posted 1/20/2013 11:34 PM (GMT 0)
hope you will be ok.

zufus - sorry about your bout, didn't know about that. hope you feel better soon

david
Posted 1/20/2013 11:58 PM (GMT 0)
So sorry to hear this. Hoping for an easy and quick recovery.
You know you are always in my prayers but I will do some prayer overtime right now.

Blessings to you from above.

Zimac
Posted 1/21/2013 1:26 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks all and have a couple questions: (1) can nodules cause dry cough? (2) can the body have trouble controlling temperature due to the cancer?

I guess the ever standard viral infection. The fever was going up and up; he was not looking so good; breathing a little labored, been more fatigued. The on-call oncologist told him to go to ER - first time for him. I called back to find out which one they wanted us at - we have 5 ERs within 15 minutes. He was a tad rude - I guess to get 2nd call - but finally told us which hospital our Dr. had privileges with. The staff and Dr great at ER. I gave him a mask and told them he could not be with other ER patients in waiting room. They kept us separate and were very attentive. Bet the on-call not happy when they called him too. :-).

X-rays showed nodules (duh), but no respiratory issues. Pulse was a concern. I had taken his Blood tests results from last week, so comparatively no major issues. Sent home and supposed to call his Dr. on Tuesday. Take him back if can't control fever and his cough become productive. It really doesn't appear a respiratory infection type issue.

Again, thanks for concern and support. Very much appreciated. I guess since that visit where the Dr. said 2013 was it and he also said all of a sudden his body would just start to give out; and than with all the people here I've come to care about having so many issues ..... just a bit worrisome. Hoping the rest of you doing all right. Haven't had time to check.
Posted 1/21/2013 1:34 AM (GMT 0)
Zulus, just reading comments - hope you are doing better. Sounds similar. So what combination drugs are you on.

One other funny thing - the Dr. did a swab for quick flu test. I said than since fighting cough and low grade fever for a couple weeks, didn't think he was a candidate for Tamiflu. Came back and said they were out of stuff to do quick test and a culture would take too long to qualify him for Tamiflu even if positive. So why the swab :-). They were nice and attentive.
Posted 1/21/2013 2:35 AM (GMT 0)
glad you are doing better, happy to read that
Posted 1/21/2013 2:42 AM (GMT 0)
Well, actually more watchful waiting, but better to do at home. Sleeping hard - and loud, but don't need to hear commentary during game. Hoping he will get better. He has fought and avoided so many infections and a bus full of spreading flu, where very few avoided getting infected, Grandkids, etc. Very amazing for one who was on chemo. May have to wake up to take temperature......hmmm, aggravating him like at hospital :-).
Posted 1/21/2013 12:36 PM (GMT 0)
Passages

I hope things are better this morning for you and that this virus thing is not another ugly head of the beast.

Zufus

So glad to hear you are out of the hospital and doing better too

This time of year I avoid all business calls to GP offices as they are nothing but breeding grounds for germs. I also try to avoid public transportation and kids, unless they are my grand kids of course. smilewinkgrin

Posted 1/21/2013 10:00 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks water guy, much better. Temperature hasn't gone up as high and mainly normal. Still funny dry cough. Energy up and down, but workable.
Posted 1/21/2013 10:27 PM (GMT 0)
Missed this thread yesterday. Im praying too for you both.
Posted 1/21/2013 10:43 PM (GMT 0)
passages- sounds somewhat similar I didn't have a real cough or snot issues, had the fever thing up to 101-102 and in between, chills off and on and plenty of fatigue. My chest xray was clear with there portable machine they used. They pumped me with i.v. things like ciproflaxen and some other antibiotics and the normal .8% or so chloride sodium (or whatever). When I had a fever they gave 2 tylenols and it worked fast on that. They never did figure out exactly what the cause(s) were, I did have a reaction to new drug protocol perhaps and I just finished SBRT sessions (5) so fatigue could be from that too. I am doing better now at home and adding some health food type things, looking for immune system boost.

The nodules could effect your breathing and such, did they say you have any wheezing or abnormal breathing type things??? I checked out fine in breathing, blood pressures, G.I. tract, ultra sounds on gall bladder, kidneys, pancreas and such all found decent and clear. I noticed the triggering of my symptoms came on right after injecting Leukine (PCa drug) along with the Ketoconazole (LD)....they might have helped cause or add to the fun. I had chills within less than one hour after using only 250 mg of Leukine, the normal is 500 mg per dose. I went off all drugs that next day, ended up in hospital a couple days later as I was not improving at all. Now on the road to normacly, I hope.
Posted 1/21/2013 11:09 PM (GMT 0)
Zufus:

In your case, RELATIVE normalcy.

<g>

Mel

Posted 1/21/2013 11:56 PM (GMT 0)
Zulus: when his temp went up, his breathing seemed stressed. Lungs and respiratory clear - of course except all the nodules. No antibiotics. He's not on those extra medications you mentioned - does sound as if they may have added to your issues. I guess it may be viral, but still wonder if there is a connection to his lung nodules - with one tumor a little larger. Who knows.
Posted 1/22/2013 1:54 AM (GMT 0)
Mel- you are having too much fun, relatively speaking (lol)

Passages- did you know these side effects from Xtandi, especially the respiratory infection thingy:
The most common adverse drug reactions ( ≥ 5%) reported in patients receiving XTANDI in the randomized clinical trial were asthenia/fatigue, back pain, diarrhea, arthralgia, hot flush, peripheral edema, musculoskeletal pain, headache, upper respiratory infection

Makes one wonder after reading that.
Posted 1/22/2013 2:02 AM (GMT 0)
True, but fevers and coughing started a week or so before Xtandi; otherwise be easy to blame on it. It's probably like the headache/stomach type thing - too many possibilities. Just a concern. Feeling any better Zufus?

Thanks greetings - for sure
Posted 1/22/2013 2:10 AM (GMT 0)
I am slowly feeling better and better, probably cause of good choices of foods and fruits and good resting, it is extremely cold here in Michigan right now and that cannot be helpful. Saw my onco today and things checked out well, low blood pressure, clear lungs and that kind of stuff. Thanks, well anyway the respiratory thing on Xtandi, had not heard that one prior, looked it up after seeing you are on it. How do you define chemo brain? A brain fog type feeling, like being half there??? Hope you feel better soon.
Posted 1/22/2013 2:28 AM (GMT 0)
It's very cold here in Ohio today and getting colder. We lived in Cheboygan when P&G still there, many years ago. Didn't seem as cold, back in the day. Glad it's getting better. My husband doesn't eat terrible - veggies, fruit along w/basic diet; but last year when started this downward trend - not sure cortisone helped - not sure he saw a reason to change much for the last years.
Posted 1/22/2013 9:46 AM (GMT 0)
Passages, wishing your husband a speedy recovery, recently read an article where they say the "winter" cough lasts 15-18 days nomatter what you do...It can be bothersome and loooong....

Zufus, get well, thinking of you!
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