Friday, April 13, 2012

Pazopanib Day 3

Wow, ok, so now this stuff is really starting to kick in. My pains at what I know to be tumor sites persisted for the rest of the day and seemed to get a bit worse, so I loafed around home the rest of the day. I took some tylenol for the pain, it did ok, but I don't think it was enough...I ended up falling asleep a bit early for me and woke up for my dose a bit later. After I took that dose I went to bed and was able to get to sleep, but woke up at 1:30ish with some of the worst stomach pain I've felt, as well as the pain I seem to be feeling at the tumor sites. I kept going over in my mind what number I'd give the pain since the nurses always ask that...7 or 8 I think... I was able to finally get back to sleep an hour later. I got up for work like usual, but ran late, still having a lot of pain in my abdomen and feeling like I might vomit. I didn't have diarrhea this morning, but a bit of it last night. The only thing really getting to me currently is the pains. One good thing so far, that leads me to believe it's helping, is the swelling in my leg has gone down a bit.

In other news, the cryoablation specialist I found was able to look at my scans and determined I am not a good candidate. There is too much tumor. I forgot to ask if they could just remove some of the tumors, not all, but really in the medical community that doesn't seem to be they way they want to do things... It's frustrating, but I'm on to other leads and I think this pazopanib is working for me. I got on a waitlist for a clinical trial in SFO that was looking good to me...

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