Hello friends,
I don't often write posts but I do read your great letters and replies, I have a question that someone may be able to answer...my oncologist told me there is only one option open to me and that is chemo but she doesn't think I am fit enough.I have cancer of the lungs,and copd.I also have ascites which is very irritating...anyone any clues on how to treat this fat belly...thank you keep well and funny.
Ragrug
Hi Ragrug, I am so sorry that you have Lung Cancer, not being able to be treated with Chemo is a big blow. Has she mentioned Radiotherapy as an option?
Ascites, another horrible condition, it would seem cutting out your Sodium (common salt) intake ( you can use Potassium chloride instead) and alcohol is the way forward, also avoid taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen and aspirin if you can.
Information link for Ascites below.
my.clevelandclinic.org/heal...
I presume u take diuretics such as furosemide.i hope yr able to have treatment for lung cancer x
Hi Ragrug, sorry I cant advise you but hope that you can find a treatment to help with your lung cancer, maybe as 2grays suggest radiotherapy maybe an option. Sending hugs x
Has the consultant traced the cause of the ascites? There are a number of medical conditions which give rise to it. My late husband Bob suffered from severe abdominal swelling when he ate processed foods containing cows milk and bleached white flour. His stomach would start swelling up within 20 minutes of eating the wrong food, and put on up to 16 inches. It took up to 2 weeks of an elimination diet for it to go down again.
I look 8 months pregnant within 2 hours of eating white bread/ flour products and cows milk.
That's interesting that Bob was not the only one. It can be very difficult to avoid them. We found out when we went to Rhodes in the late 1980s, where the flour was unbleached and the milk was from sheep and goats. He was transformed over the two weeks and came back having lost a quarter of his weight in water. Which is why I then trained as a dietitian.
I found out when I was pregnant as I increased cereal and milk. I went gluten free and had goats and soya milk for some time. Now I can eat 1 slice of whole meal bread per day and use lacto free milk.
Hi,
You do sound brave.
My sister had ascites and was given diuretics to assist getting rid of the fluid.Yes, very uncomfortable for you.
Hope you are allowed to have them
I too have ascites and take furosemide 3 times a day and also follow a low salt diet. I have severe heart failure and pulmonary hypertension.
I have a low sodium problem so have to have salt the keep it up...bit of being between a rock and a hard place
It always is isn’t it. I am supposed to eat healthily but struggle to eat at all, so I have fortisip nutrition drinks which with the oramorph send my glucose levels up, and I have T2 diabetes. Life’s a balancing act and boring.
Oh it really is..I don't want any more tests..I think I have enough wrong with me without looking for moreKeep your chin up and blood sugar down.
Regards
Ragrug
Good luck, honey. They might possibly draw off the fluid. I do hope they can make you more comfortable. 🧡
@thank you everyone for your kind comments and thoughts.I am on fluroseamide 3 tabs and it is withdrawing liquid and I go for and ecograph next week so my people seem to be on top of it.I have had radio therapy and it worked for awhile...can't do any more as my lungs are too destroyed. Thank you again for your lovely wordsRagrug.
So sorry not to have been in touch had a funny turn on Sunday..went a bit doolally and my daughter found meet in deep sleep and when I woke up I felt extremely odd she gave me cups of coffee ,
My blood pressure was extremely low but the coffee bought it back to near normal for me.So I am watching it now.
Regards to all keep breathing ...
Ragrug
Hope you are feeling better now xx
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