symptoms to lung mets

I wonder if any of you have bad symptoms with lung mets. we discovered mets to the lungs last Jan and after radiation (due to swollen nodes between the lungs causing wheezing and difficulty breathing), started Gemzar, which we had 4 rounds of (weekly). Last week CT scan showed increase in size and number of tumours.

This was very dissappointing as I really felt i was fighting it on all fronts (following macrobiotic diet as well as other herbal supplements).

in just these past two weeks my coughing has increased so much it is making me feel very worried. My onc was very serious (not his usual self) and told me that we cant keep progressing this way, that it is moving so fast....Tomorrow I start a 3-drug regimen( Mitoxantrone, Mitomycin and methotrexate). Im really hoping we can sit on it for a while.

would appreciate any help/advice from anyone with lung mets....particularly about this excessive coughing. This weekend my onc gave my steroids, which did suppress the cough on Fri and Sat, but today it just seems back to normal and thats when I start to feel depressed again...I have been so positive these past two years bus these two weeks have really made me worry that this is going to finish me off - I just look at my two beautiful girls and worry and worry and worry...

thanks for listening
I fee very sad tonite

gillian (Malta, Europe)