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Dinner card

Hi all I heard u can get some sort of card for restaurants after the Ivor Lewis operation any ideas where to get one from at all??

Hi all I heard u can get some sort of card for restaurants after the Ivor Lewis ...

Calboy

•6 years ago

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Home Oxygen service, post Oesophagectomy for breathelessness

Recently I have started getting too much short of breathe. This use to happen mostly after meals but I have noticed the shortness of breathe and fatigue in...

Recently I have started getting too much short of breathe. This use to happen mo...

Mauser1905

•6 years ago

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Regards to feeling sick

I meant to say to regards of my mum feeling sick most days... She also has the stent in from the leak after the operation the plan is to see if this can be...

I meant to say to regards of my mum feeling sick most days... She also has the s...

Calboy

•6 years ago

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Sickness

Hi people my mum had her operation around 7 weeks ago and feels sick most days not always sick but feels it ... Is it normal to feel like this after this...

Hi people my mum had her operation around 7 weeks ago and feels sick most days n...

Calboy

•6 years ago

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Recipe books or foods that are nutritious, tasty and easy to digest for people that have had Ivor Lewis surgery

Hi everyone, Thanks so much for your helpful information and support in this community. Has anyone found some helpful information recipe books, books with...

Hi everyone, Thanks so much for your helpful information and support in this co...

Apricot4color

•6 years ago

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Drop Foot

Has any got Drop Foot from chemo and IL surgery complications. Did it get better? How did they treat it?

Has any got Drop Foot from chemo and IL surgery complications. Did it get better...

Apricot4color

•6 years ago

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Achalasia and taking meds

I had had achalasia for 21 yrs. Multiple treatments that all had worked. But here lately as I have gotten older, I require several meds for other conditions...

I had had achalasia for 21 yrs. Multiple treatments that all had worked. But her...

Acagirl

•6 years ago

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Weak

Hi all my mum was home yesterday from hospital she was in there for nearly 7 weeks with complications ... Where she has been in a induced coma for so long and...

Hi all my mum was home yesterday from hospital she was in there for nearly 7 wee...

Calboy

•6 years ago

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fast heartbeat after eating

what causes heartbeat quickening after eating

azura

•6 years ago

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Scoliosis - 2nd post

It is only me again, the person who left the long post about scoliosis. I appreciated the input I got from Revju and Alan, I just wanted to convey that I am...

It is only me again, the person who left the long post about scoliosis. I appre...

lightsinthecity

•6 years ago

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Dropping off to sleep no warning

I’ve noticed I can take a good breath in , but on the out breath it’s very quite and it’s as if I’m light headed and could so easily drop off to sleep my head...

I’ve noticed I can take a good breath in , but on the out breath it’s very quite...

carolg1

•6 years ago

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typing a post and your computer shuts down

Is there anyway to find that partially finished post? Or, rather, mostly finished,, :(

Is there anyway to find that partially finished post? Or, rather, mostly finish...

lightsinthecity

•6 years ago

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Ivor lewis surgery

Hi , I had ivor lewis surgery on 19th march 2018 due to cancer in esophagus.I am 52 years old. Still having pain at surgery spot and nausea few times per...

Hi , I had ivor lewis surgery on 19th march 2018 due to cancer in esophagus.I a...

Copyap

•6 years ago

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Fear of future

My son went from 12 stone aged 12 and ended up 7 stone in seven months. The hospital treated him with an eating disorder and consequently put mental health...

My son went from 12 stone aged 12 and ended up 7 stone in seven months. The hosp...

RitaandOllytogether

•6 years ago

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What's your torso like now if you had a transhiatal oesphagectomy and a roof top scar ?

I've got quite a significant bulge under the scar on my right hand side and wondered if this was a common re arrangement after the re jig of our stomach's...

I've got quite a significant bulge under the scar on my right hand side and wond...

strangetimes

•6 years ago

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Treegirl

Hi anyone got any advise hubby diagnosed in February after many tests treatment finally started in April 5weeks chemo and radiotherapy with op to follow...

Hi anyone got any advise hubby diagnosed in February after many tests treatment ...

Treegirl

•6 years ago

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Nausea

I have reached the first anniversary of my Ivor Lewis op to remove a small benign GIST. Although the retching has subsided greatly, for some reason I have...

I have reached the first anniversary of my Ivor Lewis op to remove a small benig...

Johrene

•6 years ago

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Jack hammer esophogus Gross pain and severe sob

Following even small amounts of food I can barely breath it is so painful excruciating it’s like I’ve got a thick film front of my chest and esophogus,I have...

Following even small amounts of food I can barely breath it is so painful excruc...

carolg1

•6 years ago

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Is this recovery of chemo/radiation normal?

My husband went through chemo and radiation for stage 3a lung cancer. After the treatments, he had his surgery 7 weeks later and they said they got it all....

My husband went through chemo and radiation for stage 3a lung cancer. After the ...

Tonyabrady

•6 years ago

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In agony again.....

Well here Iam again 4am and wracked in pain. Gp will not listen. I need help now. I'm existing not living. Had enough of this!!!!!

Well here Iam again 4am and wracked in pain. Gp will not listen. I need help now...

boogaloo74

•6 years ago

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Eagle syndrome??

Hi everyone Just been diagnosed with the above. Just wondering if anyone been diagnosed with it too. I had lingual tonsillectomy 3 years ago but terrible...

Hi everyone Just been diagnosed with the above. Just wondering if anyone been d...

sukinsmudge

•6 years ago

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Hello

Hello I'm a 44 year old female. I suffer with a hiatus hernia. My symptoms are horrendous. All my GP offers is sympathy but he doesn't feel my pain day after...

Hello I'm a 44 year old female. I suffer with a hiatus hernia. My symptoms are h...

boogaloo74

•6 years ago

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Oesophagi/gastric patient survey

Please support a new European wide survey to gain insights and knowledge about oesophago/gastric cancer patients experience and needs, covering 12 languages -...

Please support a new European wide survey to gain insights and knowledge about o...

geoffrey2

•6 years ago

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PPI

At our last meeting a member of our support group informed us that for the last 3 months he has reduced his PPI dose from one Lansoprazole 30mg a day to one...

At our last meeting a member of our support group informed us that for the last ...

phil

•6 years ago

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Length of hospital follow up

Hi, is there any research as to the optimum time people should be followed up by the hospital, after treatment for oesophageal cancer? There was an article in...

Hi, is there any research as to the optimum time people should be followed up by...

Stringbean53

•6 years ago

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cures and remedies for hiatal hernia?

any suggestions? it causes me bad dyspnea and i cant live with it anymore...

HannaPixie

•6 years ago

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Regular tummy upsets

Alan’s nearly 2 years Post IL. I think he’s doing really well apart from a couple of things. One is that he continually has phlegm/mucus in his chest that...

Alan’s nearly 2 years Post IL. I think he’s doing really well apart from a coupl...

AlisonStobart

•6 years ago

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Survey. Please help

Hello everyone. I am asking members who have had oesophageal cancer, if they had ever taken Alendronic acid tablets. I am asking in order to find out if...

Hello everyone. I am asking members who have had oesophageal cancer, if they ha...

AlanWare

•6 years ago

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Lab results

Hi as you all know my mum had the Ivor Lewis operation and we just had the test results back from lab that the cancer got sent off too .... She was originally...

Hi as you all know my mum had the Ivor Lewis operation and we just had the test ...

Calboy

•6 years ago

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Nortriptyline to desentisise the esophagus?

Hi, I was wondering is anyone had been put on 10mg of nortriptyline to "desentisise" the esophagus? I'm only 21 and have had chronic esophagus and duedenistus...

Hi, I was wondering is anyone had been put on 10mg of nortriptyline to "desentis...

Lucyscougall

•6 years ago

1 Reply

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Oesophageal & Gastric Cancer

All posts for June 2018

Dinner card

Home Oxygen service, post Oesophagectomy for breathelessness

Regards to feeling sick

Sickness

Recipe books or foods that are nutritious, tasty and easy to digest for people that have had Ivor Lewis surgery

Drop Foot

Achalasia and taking meds

Weak

fast heartbeat after eating

Scoliosis - 2nd post

Dropping off to sleep no warning

typing a post and your computer shuts down

Ivor lewis surgery

Fear of future

What's your torso like now if you had a transhiatal oesphagectomy and a roof top scar ?

Treegirl

Nausea

Jack hammer esophogus Gross pain and severe sob

Is this recovery of chemo/radiation normal?

In agony again.....

Eagle syndrome??

Hello

Oesophagi/gastric patient survey

PPI

Length of hospital follow up

cures and remedies for hiatal hernia?

Regular tummy upsets

Survey. Please help

Lab results

Nortriptyline to desentisise the esophagus?

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