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Maria, I am so very sorry – I know how hard it is – I lost my husband to pancreatic cancer almost two years ago.  If you want someone to correspond with – let me know, I'll send you my e-mail address.  In the meantime, you are in my prayers.  Phyl.

Maria, I am so very sorry – I know how hard it is – I lost my husband to pancreatic cancer almost two years ago.  If you want someone to correspond with – let me know, I'll send you my e-mail address.  In the meantime, you are in my prayers.  Phyl.

Maria, I am so very sorry – I know how hard it is – I lost my husband to pancreatic cancer almost two years ago.  If you want someone to correspond with – let me know, I'll send you my e-mail address.  In the meantime, you are in my prayers.  Phyl.

My husband had a malignant plural effusion from Pancreatic cancer.  The symptoms started with a cough and then weazing and a complete lack of energy and difficulty breathing.  I don't recall there being any body aches associated with it or any of the other symptoms that you describe.  I hope this helps, as I know how hard it is to wait for tests and results.  Best to you.

My husband had a malignant plural effusion from Pancreatic cancer.  The symptoms started with a cough and then weazing and a complete lack of energy and difficulty breathing.  I don't recall there being any body aches associated with it or any of the other symptoms that you describe.  I hope this helps, as I know how hard it is to wait for tests and results.  Best to you.

My husband had a malignant plural effusion from Pancreatic cancer.  The symptoms started with a cough and then weazing and a complete lack of energy and difficulty breathing.  I don't recall there being any body aches associated with it or any of the other symptoms that you describe.  I hope this helps, as I know how hard it is to wait for tests and results.  Best to you.

Wally – remember that my husband's was pancreatic cancer, so I don't know what the treatment would be for melanoma.  Basically they drained the fluid, but since it returned immediately,  the choice was either leaving a drain to take care of at home, or a procedure where they inject a substance, in his case a fine talc, that would hopefully cause the lining of the lungs to stick together and keep the pleural effusion from reoccurring.  He decided to do the latter, but unfortunately the damage from the large number of cancer cells to his lungs was too advanced and it was not successful.  I seem to remember reading about an infusion or something where chemo could be applied directly to the pleural, but it was two years ago and a bit of a blur, so I am not really sure.

Honestly, what you describe in no way reminds me of what my husband had, so I am hopeful you will get good news.  I never can think of any questions while I am sitting in the doctors office – but usually I'll be up all that night thinking of all the things I wished I had asked!  So frustrating.

Wally – remember that my husband's was pancreatic cancer, so I don't know what the treatment would be for melanoma.  Basically they drained the fluid, but since it returned immediately,  the choice was either leaving a drain to take care of at home, or a procedure where they inject a substance, in his case a fine talc, that would hopefully cause the lining of the lungs to stick together and keep the pleural effusion from reoccurring.  He decided to do the latter, but unfortunately the damage from the large number of cancer cells to his lungs was too advanced and it was not successful.  I seem to remember reading about an infusion or something where chemo could be applied directly to the pleural, but it was two years ago and a bit of a blur, so I am not really sure.

Honestly, what you describe in no way reminds me of what my husband had, so I am hopeful you will get good news.  I never can think of any questions while I am sitting in the doctors office – but usually I'll be up all that night thinking of all the things I wished I had asked!  So frustrating.

Wally – remember that my husband's was pancreatic cancer, so I don't know what the treatment would be for melanoma.  Basically they drained the fluid, but since it returned immediately,  the choice was either leaving a drain to take care of at home, or a procedure where they inject a substance, in his case a fine talc, that would hopefully cause the lining of the lungs to stick together and keep the pleural effusion from reoccurring.  He decided to do the latter, but unfortunately the damage from the large number of cancer cells to his lungs was too advanced and it was not successful.  I seem to remember reading about an infusion or something where chemo could be applied directly to the pleural, but it was two years ago and a bit of a blur, so I am not really sure.

Honestly, what you describe in no way reminds me of what my husband had, so I am hopeful you will get good news.  I never can think of any questions while I am sitting in the doctors office – but usually I'll be up all that night thinking of all the things I wished I had asked!  So frustrating.

Wally – not that I can recall – it has been a couple of years, but reading your initial description did not remind me of his experience with it at all.  I took him to the emergency room after he couldn't stand up for even a few minutes.  After they saw his x-ray they admitted him immediately..  But he did not have any joint pain or rib pain that I know of.  He had back and side pain, but that preceeded the pleural effusion by several months and it is a classic sympton of that particular cancer.

So glad you are out of pain.  Not sure what being SOB means – well I know the way I have used it in the past – but I'm assuming you are using it differently, ha-ha.  Keep us updated.

Wally – not that I can recall – it has been a couple of years, but reading your initial description did not remind me of his experience with it at all.  I took him to the emergency room after he couldn't stand up for even a few minutes.  After they saw his x-ray they admitted him immediately..  But he did not have any joint pain or rib pain that I know of.  He had back and side pain, but that preceeded the pleural effusion by several months and it is a classic sympton of that particular cancer.

So glad you are out of pain.  Not sure what being SOB means – well I know the way I have used it in the past – but I'm assuming you are using it differently, ha-ha.  Keep us updated.

Wally – not that I can recall – it has been a couple of years, but reading your initial description did not remind me of his experience with it at all.  I took him to the emergency room after he couldn't stand up for even a few minutes.  After they saw his x-ray they admitted him immediately..  But he did not have any joint pain or rib pain that I know of.  He had back and side pain, but that preceeded the pleural effusion by several months and it is a classic sympton of that particular cancer.

So glad you are out of pain.  Not sure what being SOB means – well I know the way I have used it in the past – but I'm assuming you are using it differently, ha-ha.  Keep us updated.

Wally – not that I can recall – it has been a couple of years, but reading your initial description did not remind me of his experience with it at all.  I took him to the emergency room after he couldn't stand up for even a few minutes.  After they saw his x-ray they admitted him immediately..  But he did not have any joint pain or rib pain that I know of.  He had back and side pain, but that preceeded the pleural effusion by several months and it is a classic sympton of that particular cancer.

So glad you are out of pain.  Not sure what being SOB means – well I know the way I have used it in the past – but I'm assuming you are using it differently, ha-ha.  Keep us updated.

Wally – not that I can recall – it has been a couple of years, but reading your initial description did not remind me of his experience with it at all.  I took him to the emergency room after he couldn't stand up for even a few minutes.  After they saw his x-ray they admitted him immediately..  But he did not have any joint pain or rib pain that I know of.  He had back and side pain, but that preceeded the pleural effusion by several months and it is a classic sympton of that particular cancer.

So glad you are out of pain.  Not sure what being SOB means – well I know the way I have used it in the past – but I'm assuming you are using it differently, ha-ha.  Keep us updated.

Wally – not that I can recall – it has been a couple of years, but reading your initial description did not remind me of his experience with it at all.  I took him to the emergency room after he couldn't stand up for even a few minutes.  After they saw his x-ray they admitted him immediately..  But he did not have any joint pain or rib pain that I know of.  He had back and side pain, but that preceeded the pleural effusion by several months and it is a classic sympton of that particular cancer.

So glad you are out of pain.  Not sure what being SOB means – well I know the way I have used it in the past – but I'm assuming you are using it differently, ha-ha.  Keep us updated.