lung cancer and extreme sickness feeling

hi,my father is 93 and up untill april this year was a very fit and healthy man,he was on no medication at all,he attended the eye clinic quite regular as had amd wet macular degeneration, in april he had a eye injection of lucentis to slow this down within a week he had a chest infection was given antibiotics and this cleared, the following eye injection did the same and again it cleared,a month after he went for another eye injection and week later could hardly breathe with a bad cough,docter prescribed antibiotics again but the following morning was admitted to hospital with suspected heart attack and pneumonia,after two weeks in hospital he returned home and was getting on very well, he had a follow up xray after 6wks to which we heard nothing,in july his heart nursre heard a crackle in one of his lungs,he had no cough no shortness of breath and was gaining weight, he was sent for a ct scan on a thursday afternoon without the dye,and we went for the results on the following monday.we was sat down and told he had lung cancer,not told what stage,which lung cancer it was,whether or not it was a secondary how long roughly he,d be here, he continued to be fine still no cough or breathlessness eating ok untill 3 wks ago and he had a ear and throat virus followed by a chest infection which we all had first,he has had two lots of antibiotics and has in last two weeks suffered a feeling of extreme sickness daily and has been having to force a tiny bit of food and drink down, i can,t seem to find out if this is due to meds he,s on from the heart attack that all have side effects that could be this or if its the cancer,he,s in no pain only the sick feeling and a strange feeling in his stomach, could anybody offer any help or advice please

  • Hello I am one of the enquiry nurses. Our moderator Lucie has asked us to look at your post in case we could help. I’m afraid none of the cancerchat forum members, including me, can tell you for sure why your father is feeling sick. I think the best thing to do would be to talk to your father’s doctors about this as they know all his details so are in the best position to assess the situation and advise you both. If your father isn’t able to drink enough he will become dehydrated so I think to avoid this he needs to be assessed sooner rather than later. His doctors may be able to prescribe some anti-sickness medication to improve things so do get in touch with them. 

    I hope your fathers doctors can help.

    Best wishes,

    Julia 

  • My mum is going through the same thing now would love to know how this gentleman got on..