How will it go?.How bad will it be?Will they give pain medication,dose it work? Will they put you in a coma before you suffacate?How long will you linger? How disabled will you get?How long can you stay at home?
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yOU Die
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you die? i dont know why dont you want to live? :D
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stop fighting lung cancer and die soon
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After a time, depends on what the Dr says, you will be put on oxygen, then you will be very short of breath, its very painful, its like a slow death, then you just suficate. How sad is that?
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It depends on what stage you are. If left untreated, your cancer will progress and spread to other organs. You will have difficulty breathing, and when it reaches the bone, it will be painful. When it reaches the brain, it can affect your movement, speech, thinking. Who knows what else. If its any consolation, it won't last long. Only a small percentage of diagnosed patients survive more than 5 years.
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a slow agonizing death, as your lungs will collapse, they will prolly be able to re-inflate them once, maybe twice, but each time you will want to rip out your own lungs because of the pain, the best thing to do is to get a bottle of good meds and a stay down till you die, but that also depends on what stage you are, and how bad your health is, I reccomend fighting, because, life is too precious to waste like that
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If you decide not to fight you eventually die. Breathing becomes more difficult and you will be put on oxygen which will only help so much. Pain medication will be prescribed but can only do so much. You have to speak to your doctor about a medically induced coma. Disabled? If you are choosing not to fight lung cancer, and death is in the near future, that's pretty disabled. You can stay at home as long as you want-depending on your family and the care/support system. Hospice is an alternative as well. It may not be home but it's comforting, and caring with staff and volunteers who understand what the patient and the family members are going through. Good luck to you.
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My mother was given a 5% chance of living 6 months with her lung cancer. That was seven years ago. Her motto was she was going to be a bumble bee...bumble bees should not be able to fly as they are not aerodynamically design to do so. She kept a great sense of humor through all of the hellish treatment. And it was beyond hellish. They removed the left lower lobe of her lung. It's also important to know if the cancer is a small cell or not. Small cell can not be surgically treated. If exposed to air it takes of like wild fire. I have had several family member die of cancers. Some who chose treatment some who did not. They all took pain medication as life without it is intolerable. In most cases pain medication will assist the pain. But not make it disappear. Most of the ones with very little chance of survival with treatment did have some chemo and radiation to control the pain. How long you will live depends on your will and treatment. Humor goes along long way also. I wouldn't count on going into a coma first. If you have lung cancer and do not treat it you will be totally disabled. You can stay home as long as you like. Once you require IV therapy for medications most states require you be hospitalized. Luckily the state did not where my mom was. Hospice will do everything they can to follow your wishes. They are also a great help with family and friends. As the caretaker of my mom I know it is extremely tasking on the friends and family. The length and quality of your life can not be foreseen many times. The state of your body and mind prior to cancer can greatly affect life expectancy. I would highly recommend that you take some form of treatment. It will improve the quality of your life in many cases. While treatment can be totally miserable the alternative is even worse. Be a BEE!!! Enjoy the days you have and do everything you can to live as many as you can~ A great book to read it "Tuesdays with Morrie" for you, your friends and family. I really believe in miracles~!~I have living proof of that in my mother. She fought like hell and survived the nearly impossible. You owe it to your family and yourself as well as any one who cares about you to "fly like a bee"~ I wish you good health~happiness~ease of your days and nights~!~
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It depends on the type of lung cancer. Most likely it will continue to grow and spread through out your body. Arising in new places and causing complications at every organ it spreads to. Hard to breathe. Hard to do anything. Of course you will be in pain, espeically if the mass just keeps getting bigger and bigger. It could press on your heart and give you superior vena cava syndrome causing your body to turn blue and your heart struggle to beat. It could press on your spinal cord causing paralysis and extreme pain.
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People with advanced cancer are always given the option to treat or not treat their disease. There are two types of 'treatment' though . . curative treatment where there is a chance for a cure . . and than, palliative treatment which is based on comfort and quality of life rather than cure. Decisions like this are made all the time. At this point hospice care would be recommended either in the home or in a hospice facility. Hospice will treat any type of pain associated with the cancer and make sure that the patient is comfortable during this process. You can read more about hospice care at Medline Plus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hospicecare.html ACS: Hospice Care http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_2_5X_What_Is_Hospice_Care.asp?sitearea=ETO
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It's terrible. I just lost my husband after he fought it for 3 years. If he would not have had the chemo and radiation he would not have lived 3 months. he had about 2 and a half good years. The lung cancer he had went to his brain twice. The second time it was not only in the brain but everywhere else. He was given pain medication, his death came quickly but I have seen someone suffer for weeks.I gave him the choice to fight or not. He fought the whole way.
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you dont need to go crazy what youre acting now. but if you so worrying about youre health i think it better you set a appointment to youre doctor right way and have the doctor check see if you do have lung cancer ? if you want to takecare of yourself then you will ask youre doctor if there any medican care to help the cancer not to grow bigger . if you choose not fight or do anything about it then you will get worst and even die least couples years or more .
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