CancerCompass message board discussion started by nicole13 on 3/22/2008 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,22246,0.htm Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ HelloI wanted to write to tell everyone about this medication that completly cleared up my fathers mucus. It did the impossible. He has now recurrent neck cancer as the radiation and chemo did not kill the cancer. He recently went to get a trach put in and they did an biopsy while they were in there and it came back positive. He is now home on hospice and after all this we told hospice about his flem and they gave us Transderm Scop patches. They are for sea sickness . We had to use two at a time for it to work. We put one patch behind each ear and it really worked. Nothing has worked all this time . His flem is so bad he could hardly lay down flat for his radiation treatments and had to cut some short. He cant take any cat scans because of it as well. All this time he could have had this and maybe been able to eat better as all food came out of his nose. He now has a feeding tube in and a trach and still has cancer and some how this patch made all the flem dissapear and I mean really dissapear and in a day. He had bad neasua from the feeding tube and it also made that go away so now he can get up and move around. I really cant say enough about these patches. Please if you have bad mucus or even if you have neausea please have your doctor try these. His flem was so bad you could actually grab it and pull. Not to be gross but to give you an example of how bad it was to how gone it is now. I hope this can help even one person. My father wanted everyone to know about it. Had we had it earlier it would have been easier on him and we might have been able to get better readings on his scans. Just as a side note, he also has bad swelling of his cheeks lips and tongue from his lymphatic system not draining right. They put him on Steriods and the swelling went down in 2 days. He has to stay on them but it does help.Nicole nicole13 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT  On 3/22/2008 nicole13 wrote:HelloI wanted to write to tell everyone about this medication that completly cleared up my fathers mucus. It did the impossible. He has now recurrent neck cancer as the radiation and chemo did not kill the cancer. He recently went to get a trach put in and they did an biopsy while they were in there and it came back positive. He is now home on hospice and after all this we told hospice about his flem and they gave us Transderm Scop patches. They are for sea sickness . We had to use two at a time for it to work. We put one patch behind each ear and it really worked. Nothing has worked all this time . His flem is so bad he could hardly lay down flat for his radiation treatments and had to cut some short. He cant take any cat scans because of it as well. All this time he could have had this and maybe been able to eat better as all food came out of his nose. He now has a feeding tube in and a trach and still has cancer and some how this patch made all the flem dissapear and I mean really dissapear and in a day. He had bad neasua from the feeding tube and it also made that go away so now he can get up and move around. I really cant say enough about these patches. Please if you have bad mucus or even if you have neausea please have your doctor try these. His flem was so bad you could actually grab it and pull. Not to be gross but to give you an example of how bad it was to how gone it is now. I hope this can help even one person. My father wanted everyone to know about it. Had we had it earlier it would have been easier on him and we might have been able to get better readings on his scans. Just as a side note, he also has bad swelling of his cheeks lips and tongue from his lymphatic system not draining right. They put him on Steriods and the swelling went down in 2 days. He has to stay on them but it does help.Nicole Thank you for posting this, I will be calling my husband's doctor first thing Monday,he has been dealing with very thick mucus for 3 years the only thing we have found to ease it so far is Coke and Guaifenesin but it has helped very little. He has mestastic head and neck cancerof the tonsil root.He has undergone radical surgery.2 rounds of Chem-o,1 of radiation our latest fight was a mass in the liver.We have dealt with 2 outbreaks in the lung ,first one he had a wedge resection,second one a round of chem-o  the latest in the liver he had a procedure done called radio frequency ablation. Thank you again for posting this I am really hopeful it will improve his New Normal way of life as we call it.Gloria   Glorygal Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT  On 10/4/2008 Glorygal wrote: On 3/22/2008 nicole13 wrote:HelloI wanted to write to tell everyone about this medication that completly cleared up my fathers mucus. It did the impossible. He has now recurrent neck cancer as the radiation and chemo did not kill the cancer. He recently went to get a trach put in and they did an biopsy while they were in there and it came back positive. He is now home on hospice and after all this we told hospice about his flem and they gave us Transderm Scop patches. They are for sea sickness . We had to use two at a time for it to work. We put one patch behind each ear and it really worked. Nothing has worked all this time . His flem is so bad he could hardly lay down flat for his radiation treatments and had to cut some short. He cant take any cat scans because of it as well. All this time he could have had this and maybe been able to eat better as all food came out of his nose. He now has a feeding tube in and a trach and still has cancer and some how this patch made all the flem dissapear and I mean really dissapear and in a day. He had bad neasua from the feeding tube and it also made that go away so now he can get up and move around. I really cant say enough about these patches. Please if you have bad mucus or even if you have neausea please have your doctor try these. His flem was so bad you could actually grab it and pull. Not to be gross but to give you an example of how bad it was to how gone it is now. I hope this can help even one person. My father wanted everyone to know about it. Had we had it earlier it would have been easier on him and we might have been able to get better readings on his scans. Just as a side note, he also has bad swelling of his cheeks lips and tongue from his lymphatic system not draining right. They put him on Steriods and the swelling went down in 2 days. He has to stay on them but it does help.Nicole Thank you for posting this, I will be calling my husband's doctor first thing Monday,he has been dealing with very thick mucus for 3 years the only thing we have found to ease it so far is Coke and Guaifenesin but it has helped very little. He has mestastic head and neck cancerof the tonsil root.He has undergone radical surgery.2 rounds of Chem-o,1 of radiation our latest fight was a mass in the liver.We have dealt with 2 outbreaks in the lung ,first one he had a wedge resection,second one a round of chem-o  the latest in the liver he had a procedure done called radio frequency ablation. Thank you again for posting this I am really hopeful it will improve his New Normal way of life as we call it.Gloria HelloI really hope this works for him. Someone else wrote back that it helped but dried him out to much and he switched from two patches to one patch. If you are able to get them you might want to start with one and then work up to two or vice versa. I think they are supposed to be changed every 3 days or so so once or twice we kept it off for an extra day or so just for him to not be so dry. If you have the time to write back after trying them please do just so others will know. I dont want to keep reccommending it if it is not working for most. My thoughts are with you and yours. Nicole   nicole13 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Thank you for getting back to me,We got the patches today and will let you know the results we are going to start off using 1.We belong to a support group called S.P.O.N.C.and I am sure the members will be excited about this if it helps almost all of them suffer with this problem.Thank you again and know prayers are with you and yours.Glorygal  Glorygal Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT