I went to see 3 rd opinion doctor last week, and the doctor ask me a lot of question but end up he did not tell me what those the question relate to my cancer. Below are the question:
1) when is your 1st period
2) at what age you got married
3) at what age you got pregnant, and your baby was born?
4) what else sickness do you have in your live
5) your mother die at what age,
At the end he tell me my current doctor are cheating money, as The only medicine suitable to prolonged my live is alimta. Because it has the least side effect. My current doctor which used avastin with gemzar and cisplastin will not help me to cure my cancer and I'm wasting money.
He said there is no right or wrong, if I want to be at home to just continue the rest of the time it is fine. The most I have is 5 years. If I go on alimta I might just survive a few months more maybe, or I might die faster. This is depend on your body condition. Since you have no pain at all you don't even have to come to see doctor, but if you wish to chit chat then you may come.
There will be no CT scan or MRI as it doesn't not make any difference. Don't waste the effort.
This will be my last visit to doctor as I'm really down every time after a doctor visit. I can't sleep well for few days. It Takes me a few days to be strong again.
Chit chat means just answering question, there will be no CT scan or MRI scan at all as it does help. Even if you feel pain, he will not conduct any scan also. As it makes no difference.
I think this will be my last visit to doctor, as every time I see doctor it give me a very bad feeling. Then it take times for me to be strong again. I couldn't sleep well every time after I see doctor.
As my white blood cell are still low, I will start my traditional medicines from my neighbor on Monday. My neighbor who have stage 4 lung cancer free for more than 15 years will be my role model.
I will follow her instruction
Feel sorry that you meet with such crazy doctor.
ReplyDeleteCan share the doctor name or the surname initial and the hospital initial. So , will alert others not to go there.
My onco is giving me booster for white blood cell ( name of the booster drug : Granocyte ) for my current chemo with Taxotere, reason being this drug will badly reduce the white blood cell, so, I have to inject it on day 3 , day 4 and day 5 . It works well for me and my blood test reading for white blood cell right before my second chemo is very good .
Maybe you can check with your onco , as low in white blood cell count is not good and it may make your body easy to get infection.
Wish you recover soon .
SK
Dr. Albert from gleaengle is the one say no scanning needed, then dr Christina from sunway is the one being comment money minded.
ReplyDeleteCT for your info, I have been injecting booster since my 2nd chemo.
Never expected with his many comment in news paper about caring for the feeling of cancer patient, he will make such comment .
ReplyDeleteAbout Gemzar and Cisplatin, from reading lung cancer forum, it is standard 1st line chemo drug and it is normal to add Avastin.
It is just like my case, I start with Caboplatin + Taxol .
I have just posted in my blog some sharing of 1st line chemotherapy , it extract from Cancer Grace and was posted by Dr Weiss.
http://cancergrace.org:80/lung/2010/04/16/introduction-to-first-line-therapy-for-advanced-nsclc/
Meantime,suggest you to log in to Cancer GRACE http://www.cancergrace.org
to read the posting and sharing from Onco , who is specialising in Lung cancer ( in USA ) and also from caretaker and patient. It is a very informative Lung Cancer site to get information of what is the latest avaialble drug for Lung cancer and also can post question to Onco in the site for some sharing of treatment option and so on.