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Scary nights…….Tests…!!!

 After the 5th cycle of chemo, initially in the nights, he used to complain of unbearable pain around the left side of his abdomen. In general, when a patient is under chemotherapy, he or she experiences unbearable pain as their immune system becomes weak. So, I thought that he was complaining of such pain.

On the first day, when he complained about this unbearable pain in the night, I thought it was appendicitis. But, my father was a biology student, so he was pretty sure that it was not appendicitis. I made a call to the hospital around 2 AM and they connected the phone call to the duty doctor, he advised me to give him a pantoprazole tablet, and after a while, if the pain didn’t subside then give him an aceclofenac tablet. If he still complains of the pain, then please bring him to the hospital.

Consulted the doctor regarding this problem, Dr. Kishore suggested for Ultrasound and the reports of the ultrasound were negative (which stated that everything was fine inside). The doctor also told us that, it might be because of chemo drugs and we can check it again before the next cycle.

After a few days, he used to wake up around 12 AM because of those pains and sometimes he used to cry too. I used to get worried and ask him many nights ‘Let’s go to the hospital’ but he refused it. Instead, he took the pain medication. Slowly that pain started occurring very frequently (even during the day times), all that we managed then was with aceclofenac tablet. We consulted the doctor again and then he suggested Ultrasound again, even this time, the reports were negative.

After the 8th cycle, the doctor advised for PET-CT scan (which is an effective way to help identify a variety of conditions, including cancer, heart disease, and brain disorders). Doctors can use this information to help diagnose, monitor, or treat in a better way.

PET-CT reports — There were different opinions between doctors on this in the same hospital. One doctor said that the reports didn’t indicate any recurrence of the tumour while the other negated it. So, we decided to approach the hospital, where the surgery was done.

But, a day later we again went to the hospital for his left side abdomen pain. The doctor again suggested an Ultrasound but this time at a different place.

This time the reports stated that there was some abnormal growth inside and the doctor also said that, we couldn’t term it cancer again. The doctor advised us to get admitted in a day for the next 5 days to treat it with Cefixime variant injections.

But……………………….

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