Experiences with

Parenteral nutrition

Hi all, not posted for a while but I am now at day+33 and finally starting to feel a bit normal again. I had very bad mucositis following sct and then problems with fluid retention due to all the IVs, mainly tpn as the ng feeding tube didn't stay in. Anyway looks like I'm going home on Friday so that's

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Dear Women of strength I’m writing this post in case others may find my experience useful in the future. I was diagnosed 3C HGSOC in Nov 2021,(fit aged 57) followed with Carbo/paclitaxol and debulking surgery for 6 months until NED summer 2022. Had good summer then back at work teaching on Niraparib

Good morning all. I just wanted to say hi after quite a while of no post, and give a little update on mum. Some of you will remember mum had OC stage 3c in feb 2021, and was later that year also diagnosed with another separate primary cancer found in her debulking, they also found a rare appendix cancer

does anyone else have a picc line or Hickman line for TPN please?

Hello, adies. I just want to ask if anyone has tried alternative/additional treatment, like special diet, nutrition therapy? Has anyone of you visited a nutritionist to help go through the healing process? Any recommendations? Thank you very much!

Has anybody taken Medical Nutrition Therapy for T2 diabetes to get rid of medicines and cured of diabetes? If yes, can I have the contact details of your Therapist

I have recently had an appointment with an integrated medicine practitioner. Prior to the appointment I called to check whether this clinic could help me in several key areas:- Weight management Bhrt prescription Hormones balance Thyroid The secretary i spoke to confirmed that I had come to the

I had RARP in December of 2018, Gleason 5+4=9, negative margins, pT3N0. Post op PSA 0.009 which has risen to 0.063 over the past 18 months. Have been followed at Univ of Penn by my surgeon/urologist with consults with Radiation Oncologist. The plan is to monitor PSA quarterly and intervene with

If you have PBC and are on TPN but your protein is still low with dangerous levels of albumin noted with malnutrition what is the course of action? Has anyone been through this?

I am posting this from the consideration that information is empowering, and in this case is full of caution. It is from a physician deeply involved in the fight to care for Seattle COVID patients. It is not a controlled study and has no statistics. Rather a first-person perspective on how this is unfolding

He evolved with multiple episodes of intestinal subocclusion that had to be treated with enterectomy in the first instance, then digestive rest and total parenteral nutrition.

New paper below [1]. "At 6 mo, 40% receiving AAP {abiraterone acetate and prednisone} + ADT and 6.5% receiving PBO {placebo} + ADT achieved PSA ≤0.1 ng/ml, which was significantly associated with longer rPFS {radiological progression-free survival} and OS {overall survival}." -Patrick [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

I would love to hear thoughts on this study. It is an older, small study, but there is additional supporting evidence for reduction of polyamines, which is posted after the study. Basically, the group that reduced polyamines and took antibiotics to reduce polyamine producing bacteria survived twice

We report the case of a 62-year-old female with a history of hypothyroidism and non-compliance who presented with unexplained ascites and then also developed severe malnutrition, requiring total parenteral nutrition (TPN).

Hello has anyone been on TPN via pik line and ended up with low protein? Or is TPN dangerous for someone switch stabilized PBC?

As another newbie to CKD diagnosis and to this group, Sassymom, our stories are very similar but from a great deal of reading, unfortunately not that uncommon. A large, unexplained weight loss led to my PCP's ordering an ultra sound which reported: "suggestion of renal disease". My request to PCP for

My asthma got worse earlier this year all due to stress, December last year my sister whom I cared for 27 years died due to complications following a planned operation. It was a dreadful shock. I was running round arranging the funeral and my tendency agreement as it was in my sisters name. I have to

Well 3 weeks ago when I got admitted into hospital for not being very well at all After 2 weeks of TPN and food and fortisipe I’ve put on just about 7 pounds So I’m now 6.8 stone One happy girl

Well where do I start; I’m 28 a mother to a beautiful 5 year old boy. I have hyper mobility of my hip which has left me bedbound and has you can imagine it’s caused a bit of ripple affect. Every time I get an illness or sick bug I loose dramatic amounts of weight which is a lot in the last year. This