Dads Fever Getting Worse

Hi everyone,

My Dad was diagnosed with esophageul cancer with mets to the liver in October of 2007.  He's been getting a fever on and off since then, but in the last 3 months, it's been every night, and more recently starting earlier and earlier in the day, now he has it all day and night.  His doctors tell him to keep taking tylenol to bring the fever down, and that the fevers are due to the liver tumors, and it's just part of the disease.  The fevers are getting higher and less responsive to tylenol.  His fever was over 103 degrees and he took 2 extra strength tylenol and it only brought it down a bit after 2 hours so he had to take 2 more.  Has anyone else experienced this?  I am so scared for him that the tylenol will stop working all together and his fever will just keep going up until it kills him.  He's seen 2 oncologists and they dont know what to do for him with the fevers except tell him to keep taking tylenol.  Is this rare or are there others who have had high fevers due to liver tumors and what did you do?

On 3/31/2008 Linds wrote:

Hi everyone,

My Dad was diagnosed with esophageul cancer with mets to the liver in October of 2007.  He's been getting a fever on and off since then, but in the last 3 months, it's been every night, and more recently starting earlier and earlier in the day, now he has it all day and night.  His doctors tell him to keep taking tylenol to bring the fever down, and that the fevers are due to the liver tumors, and it's just part of the disease.  The fevers are getting higher and less responsive to tylenol.  His fever was over 103 degrees and he took 2 extra strength tylenol and it only brought it down a bit after 2 hours so he had to take 2 more.  Has anyone else experienced this?  I am so scared for him that the tylenol will stop working all together and his fever will just keep going up until it kills him.  He's seen 2 oncologists and they dont know what to do for him with the fevers except tell him to keep taking tylenol.  Is this rare or are there others who have had high fevers due to liver tumors and what did you do?

Hi,

My mother's lung cancer produced fever.  (That was her main symptom.)  She used Darvacet (which has Tylenol in it) and that worked for her.  When she started radiation, her fevers became quite high aand she was hospitalized.  They lasted throughout the two weeks she had treatment, but after they subsided.  Is your father having radiation treatments by any chance?    Roz