Mom was diagnosed with NSCLC stage 111b in August. We've been through 10 chemo treatments (Cisplatin, VP-16) and 35 radiation treatments. She's really been a trooper in my opinion. initially she was put on high blood pressure pills because a part of the cancer "broke off" and was sitting on her heart, making it beat faster. Radiologist said he would zap it with radiation. It appears that has happened. Her BP has been low for the last week or so and yesterday she starting having shakes and feeling slightly dizzy. After much argument, I paged her doc who said that she obviously doesn't need heBP meds anymore, and that some could be side effects of the chemo and we should always make sure she sits down when it happens, and we might even have to have her lay down. If it continues next week he wants to see her. Up until now, she's battled the sore throat from radiation, but otherwise we've been pretty lucky as far as side effects go. I'm terrified. Just terrified. We were ready for the next 10 chemo treatments and got a little "present" from the doc because he reviewed her case with a group of docs and scientists and they concluded that 10 more chemos would cause more side effects than help, so they just ordered 10 more radiations and now we wait to do the PET scan in January.
Has anyone else (or their loved ones) had the shakes? How long did it take to go away?
Sorry for the long post. I haven't logged into inspire in a while, and I guess I just needed to vent. I want so badly for this treatment to work, I am just not ready to lose my mom. I see the other posts about those losing their loved ones and it scares me even more ...
Jessica
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