6 month zelboraf update

Thanks Dick – I watch your posts and hope for the same success you're having. when I read the standard "it quits working after 6 to 8 months" i remember how long you've benefited from the Zelboraf.  My side effects are episodic. I have days when I'm moderately nauseous and just take promethazine for that, constant pain in the ball of my right foot that seems to get better when i use it more, i've got Celebrex for a bad shoulder and tylenol 3 when I need it, teeth are becoming more sensitive and I've lost a lot of hair. I've had a full beard since 1970 and it now looks much thinner, been pretty hairy all my adult life but no more. I seem to have a constant cold that borders on bronchitis with a mild cough i can't shake but have cough meds and Tessalon perles for that. I'm probably less sensitve to sunlight than most people on Zelboraf although i do burn much more quickly. We made a trip to Cairo and Kenya this summer to visit our son in the Peace Corps and I never had more than mild sunburn but I wear performance sun blocking shirts and use SPF 50 sunscreen. We were in the bush of Kenya and it never got out of control. all in all it's a good medication for me. I tried Interferon but only lasted 10 treatments of the first month but that was when I was stage 3. I went from stage 3 to 4 real fast with lots of mets in myh lungs and a collapsed lobe and I'd had a PET scan 5 months earlier that didn't show any hot spots so I consider myself very very lucky. I've also got prostate cancer that's micrometastatic but growing very slowly.

Thanks Dick – I watch your posts and hope for the same success you're having. when I read the standard "it quits working after 6 to 8 months" i remember how long you've benefited from the Zelboraf.  My side effects are episodic. I have days when I'm moderately nauseous and just take promethazine for that, constant pain in the ball of my right foot that seems to get better when i use it more, i've got Celebrex for a bad shoulder and tylenol 3 when I need it, teeth are becoming more sensitive and I've lost a lot of hair. I've had a full beard since 1970 and it now looks much thinner, been pretty hairy all my adult life but no more. I seem to have a constant cold that borders on bronchitis with a mild cough i can't shake but have cough meds and Tessalon perles for that. I'm probably less sensitve to sunlight than most people on Zelboraf although i do burn much more quickly. We made a trip to Cairo and Kenya this summer to visit our son in the Peace Corps and I never had more than mild sunburn but I wear performance sun blocking shirts and use SPF 50 sunscreen. We were in the bush of Kenya and it never got out of control. all in all it's a good medication for me. I tried Interferon but only lasted 10 treatments of the first month but that was when I was stage 3. I went from stage 3 to 4 real fast with lots of mets in myh lungs and a collapsed lobe and I'd had a PET scan 5 months earlier that didn't show any hot spots so I consider myself very very lucky. I've also got prostate cancer that's micrometastatic but growing very slowly.

Thanks Dick – I watch your posts and hope for the same success you're having. when I read the standard "it quits working after 6 to 8 months" i remember how long you've benefited from the Zelboraf.  My side effects are episodic. I have days when I'm moderately nauseous and just take promethazine for that, constant pain in the ball of my right foot that seems to get better when i use it more, i've got Celebrex for a bad shoulder and tylenol 3 when I need it, teeth are becoming more sensitive and I've lost a lot of hair. I've had a full beard since 1970 and it now looks much thinner, been pretty hairy all my adult life but no more. I seem to have a constant cold that borders on bronchitis with a mild cough i can't shake but have cough meds and Tessalon perles for that. I'm probably less sensitve to sunlight than most people on Zelboraf although i do burn much more quickly. We made a trip to Cairo and Kenya this summer to visit our son in the Peace Corps and I never had more than mild sunburn but I wear performance sun blocking shirts and use SPF 50 sunscreen. We were in the bush of Kenya and it never got out of control. all in all it's a good medication for me. I tried Interferon but only lasted 10 treatments of the first month but that was when I was stage 3. I went from stage 3 to 4 real fast with lots of mets in myh lungs and a collapsed lobe and I'd had a PET scan 5 months earlier that didn't show any hot spots so I consider myself very very lucky. I've also got prostate cancer that's micrometastatic but growing very slowly.