breast cancer

My mother has breast cancer stage 4.She had a masectomy on her right breast,and now she has chronic pain there.We have went to several doctors and now she is being treating at a pain clinic.They have her on fentanyl patch's 75 mg.They don't help.She has took vicadine,morphine,lorocet,and who knows what else.The pills eased the pain for awhile,but either she became immuned or the pain has gotten worse.The pain doc wants her to have injections in her chest,but she is 67 years old and it already hurts her to even be touched there.Not sure what else I can do or try for her.Any suggestions?  
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[sonu78]

Hi,
Sorry about your mother.
She is in the stage that requires only terminal care. I feel bad as there is nothing much it can be offered to your mother. Fentanyl patch is the one of  the last things given to eliminate pain.

[Kamal S Saini, MD, MRCP (UK), DM]

Hi,
I am sorry to hear of your mothers suffering.
It seems that she has Stage 4 cancer, although you have not specified that.
Today, a potent cocktail of pain-relieving medications are available, and pain relief is a highly specialized and effective branch of medicine.
The drugs you mentioned are actually quite effective, but need to be taken in the right dose and frequency.
Please ask her to be patient and co-operate with her doctors. She should give each regimen a fair chance of succeding, before switching to another set of drugs.
In case her bone is involved, then Zolidronic acid will provide some relief. If local nerve-damage by tumor infiltration is suspected, then addition of some anti-epileptic drugs like valproate or gabapentin may be useful.

[ganz4u]

Thanks for your advise.My mother is also on Gabapentin.It doesn't help much either.She has had cat scans and pet scans and it shows no signs of growth.So this is good,but its sad to know that she is just dying from pain and not cancer.The pain doctor wants to give her injections but she is scared of the pain cause it hurts to even be touched there.She is a stage 4 cancer tho.We will keep trying to figure this out tho,but I really don't want her on the fentanyl patch anymore.I have heard to many bad things.She was better when she was on the vicadine and morphine.

[Lady007]

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Lady007

12/10/07
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Lady007

12/10/07
ALL  Did you know that CAT SCANS are equivalent to 400 chest xrays in Radiation.  

Did you know that TAXOL kills veins and cripples the area where its been administered....

Did you know that HERCEPTIN 2 gives your cardiotoxidity...weakens your HEART...TAXOL combined with HER2 Govt approved only if you take HER2 WITH TAXOL...wow  That sounds like blackmail..Their aim is to kill you one way or the other.  
Lady007

12/10/07
ALL  After feeling three lumps in my left breast last december 2006.  They did a mamogram (mammogram) on the breast and you could see the lumps quiet clear.  I then went on to have the biopsy which was via Ultra sound visual system by which you could see the lumps quiet clear again.  These lumps turned out to be grade 3 Cancer, which had infected two lympnodes.   I then had surgery after nuclear dye had been administered to keep the Doc on track when removing my breast and finding all the supposed infected areas. The surgeon took 15 lympnodes plus the sentinal gland in this operation along with the whole breast removal.  It was the ongoing treatment that had me rather bewildered as to the system of which followed.  I was hit with AC x 4 Cyclophosphamide, Amend, Granistron, Hydrochlorid, and  Dexamethasone [sent my sugar levels sky high spent week in hospital with that] with maxalon to stabalize my system and diabetic 2 medications.  This was only in the first 4 treatments at 3 week intervals.  Then HER2 combined with TAXOL another 4 treatments...Now I am down onto HER2 on its own...My heart rate first up was 38% next 42% next 47% the next test is pending.  I have decided that if the heart does not come up over 50% next test that my treatment should be stopped.  I need an opinion here?  
Lady007

12/10/07
ALL  To my way of thinking my breast should have been hit with radiation to shrink the cancer berfore surgery was administered.  Thus giving a more direct approach to the cancer via the surgeon.  Then when the wound was healed I should have been hit again with radiation.  Then to complete the process of doses of HER2 on its own....In my opinion...too many mistakes have been made on this problem with not enough thought gone into it...I also need an opionion here?


Lady007

12/11/07
ALL  http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/doctoring1.html

CORRUPT PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY.  They pay big money to keep us sick with medicines, that in the long term kill us.