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Re: Has Anyone had success with hyperbarics?
I have done hyperbarics for my jaw. I have seen it done for others with wound management. I am a nosy nurse and made friends with an elderly patient and his wife. it helped his wound heal, and saved his leg.
Some people debate using hyperbarics because of it feeding "latent" or "hidden" cancer cells. My take on that is quality of life/ versus your overall health. Even if it does flare something if your weakend because of the open wound, and all the complications of the infections and garbarge that goes along wiht it. I would call your insurance and see who has a wound management clinic with a certified chamber, and staff, some places have a "room" that you dive with other patients. It is better to find one with individual ones unless your claustrophopic (they look like a giant clear tube! you can even watch a video or tv!! I would also consult another plastic , but remeber if the site is not good to receive a skin graft, it needs to be healed first then do later. You only have so few sites of your own to use, and when you do use it then you want it to work and be healthy the first time!!!
Take care Darita
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dx 1/06 IDC 2cm 38 at dx
2/06 L mast nodes 3/9+ SNB neg ER-/Pr - her2 + Stg 4 liver/pelvis
3/06-9/06Taxol/Carbo/zometa/Herceptin
3/07 6 brain mets WBR down to c-2
4/07 osteonecrosis jaw
1/08 mri new 9mm lesion right lower side
2/08 gamma knife 1 lesion 11/08 regamma
10/09 latent rad necrosis to brain met,
1/20/10 crani: lesion necrosis w active cells continue her add tykerb
1/11 NED just Ingrown toenail! YEAH GOD
8/11 Tykerb, herceptin weekly, elevated her2 levels, negative scans
oct -march 11 new neuro deficits lower legs
3/12 2 spinal metsTykerb, Herceptin
04/12 4050cGY rads T 2-4 & T7-9
5/12 Brain,cervical lumbar clear/thoracic slight decrease
10/12 t 2-4 shrunk t-9 grew start Xeloda, 02/13 stop xeloda,5/13 on metformin, decadron, Tykerb, iv and IT herceptin 5/30/13 total #11 #2 of 80mg dose weekly.
9/13 100mg of IT her, IV hern, 750 mg tykerb, 3mg dec.
last Mri T--3 SHRUNK t7-9 shrunk no edema. Left shift in CBC bone marrow BX negative.
10/13 Ct has shown Double left ureters with stones/cysts in them, after 3 births and lots and U/S iit takes cancer to figure out you have 2 smaller ureters going into 1 kidney!
12/13 Mri brain no new lesions, cervical and lumbar arthritis.
Tspine lesion at T3 stable, T 7-9 GROWTH lots of pain
1/29/14 HIHO HIHO its off to Neuro surgery I go
Life is Good when you wake up in the morning and take a breath and know that God has given me another day.
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