Jlpettit76

Hi Sarah, thanks for posting this on this website. I started to take Debrafenib and Mekinist about four months ago after my melanoma had metastasized to my head. I had a racquetball sized tumor in the front right lobe of my brain that the doctors at Memorial Herman Hospital in the Houston Med Center surgically removed. In mid January 2015 I started to get the chills and fever's almost every day from the medicine.  I thought that I was coming down with the flu but nothing came up when I went to the MD Anderson Emergency room. I had about 2 weeks of freedom from that after my doctor told me to take a few days off of the medicine. Then yesterday I started to run another fever and started to get the chills. Today I've had the same thing and was running almost 103 temperature. After reading your post I realize now it's the medicine that's giving me the symptoms. All my check ups since my surgery have come back clear and there are no other cancer spots that we have been able to see in my scans. With the way I'm reacting to this medicine I feel like telling the doctors to wean me off this medicine because there's nothing there that we can see that says I have cancer and I don't like the way it makes me feel physical!  I feel very blessed that I am where I am but I'm just in a struggle as to whether I should just not take the medicine anymore. That's just something I'll have to decide. Thanks again for your post! Gave me some clarity on those drugs!

all the best, Jared

Hi Sarah, thanks for posting this on this website. I started to take Debrafenib and Mekinist about four months ago after my melanoma had metastasized to my head. I had a racquetball sized tumor in the front right lobe of my brain that the doctors at Memorial Herman Hospital in the Houston Med Center surgically removed. In mid January 2015 I started to get the chills and fever's almost every day from the medicine.  I thought that I was coming down with the flu but nothing came up when I went to the MD Anderson Emergency room. I had about 2 weeks of freedom from that after my doctor told me to take a few days off of the medicine. Then yesterday I started to run another fever and started to get the chills. Today I've had the same thing and was running almost 103 temperature. After reading your post I realize now it's the medicine that's giving me the symptoms. All my check ups since my surgery have come back clear and there are no other cancer spots that we have been able to see in my scans. With the way I'm reacting to this medicine I feel like telling the doctors to wean me off this medicine because there's nothing there that we can see that says I have cancer and I don't like the way it makes me feel physical!  I feel very blessed that I am where I am but I'm just in a struggle as to whether I should just not take the medicine anymore. That's just something I'll have to decide. Thanks again for your post! Gave me some clarity on those drugs!

all the best, Jared

Hi Sarah, thanks for posting this on this website. I started to take Debrafenib and Mekinist about four months ago after my melanoma had metastasized to my head. I had a racquetball sized tumor in the front right lobe of my brain that the doctors at Memorial Herman Hospital in the Houston Med Center surgically removed. In mid January 2015 I started to get the chills and fever's almost every day from the medicine.  I thought that I was coming down with the flu but nothing came up when I went to the MD Anderson Emergency room. I had about 2 weeks of freedom from that after my doctor told me to take a few days off of the medicine. Then yesterday I started to run another fever and started to get the chills. Today I've had the same thing and was running almost 103 temperature. After reading your post I realize now it's the medicine that's giving me the symptoms. All my check ups since my surgery have come back clear and there are no other cancer spots that we have been able to see in my scans. With the way I'm reacting to this medicine I feel like telling the doctors to wean me off this medicine because there's nothing there that we can see that says I have cancer and I don't like the way it makes me feel physical!  I feel very blessed that I am where I am but I'm just in a struggle as to whether I should just not take the medicine anymore. That's just something I'll have to decide. Thanks again for your post! Gave me some clarity on those drugs!

all the best, Jared