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Decreasing Decadron? |
A friend of mine has metastatic brain cancer and is in a palliative care center. She requested to stop taking Decadron to speed up mortality. Does this actually reduce her life expectancy? Stopping the Decadron will increase the amount of swelling in the brain. She may become more confused and agitated if she does this. These symptoms can be reduced though with lots of pain meds and anxiety meds. I personally use Ativan in my patients. I don't know. But it just might because Decadron is used to reduce the swelling in the brain. It does not look like it will speed up death - only make the pain worse. It is reducing the swelling and not stopping anything. Where is Kavorkian when you want him? Not know for what it was given, I cannot guess. Decadron would not affect the tumor. I was told that Decadron is just given to make the person "feel better" , if that is the case it isn't going to do anything but make her feel worse. |
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