Great to hear you’ve finished your rads - bet all that travelling hasn’t helped with the tiredness.
I have just done number 5 today so I am a third of the way. I am lucky I don’t have too far to travel, usually takes me about an hour and a half a day and some of that time is queuing for the car park.
How is your skin, are you very sore? So far I seem ok, just a little tender, but waiting for it to kick in. Also feeling a bit tired but not sure if it’s just the stress of it all catching up with me
cant believe that’s you are a third of the way jaye. the time passes very quickly.
My skin feels tight, still using my E45 and my scar seems to have healed at last. Have to say under my arm and back feels tight and I forgot to use cream there.
The tiredness is very strange. It’s more a just can’t be bothered. I am still wearing my sports bras and cover the sensitive areas with cotton swabs so it’s not touching as I was getting very itchy.
Hi keeks, great to hear you have finished radiotherapy. I have my appointment to see the oncologist on 30th may so hopefully will find out then when it will start. I must admit the bit I’m not looking forward to the most is travelling to and from the hospital every day.
Sounds like you just need to rest and be kind to yourself. Take care xxpb
Kathy - Glad to hear you’ve finished your rads, sorry to hear about your burns though - take care and hope it heals soon.
Keeks - Hope you are feeling a bit better now you’ve finished and don’t have the travelling to do,
Had my 7th this morning, Yesterdays was a late 4.30 appointment and was on a different machine. I had got used to the girls on the usual machine and they put me at ease. Yesterday it was two men on the new machine and not a good experience as I am a stressy person. They man handled me into place and one told me not to wriggle and kept pushing my head to side. So I had a stiff neck last night as I suffer with arthritis in my neck.
Anyway I had a good talk to myself overnight but was dreading this mornings appointment.
Fortunately it was two lovely girls and made me feel better. This different machine takes longer giving the dose but I was able to ask the girl why and she explained it delivers a bit lower dose for longer but same dose overall - so put my mind at rest.
the joy of the sore nipple has arrived, third week of treatment I covered mine with a cotton swab, a hankie would do, then had to take my bra off as soon as I got home.
always had the urge to scratch it at the worst possible time, sitting waiting, in the supermarket , when trying to have a conversation and lost the thread because I wanted to scratch. Keep it moisturised. I think I’m going to try the aloe vera on mine tonight it’s driving me crazy.
I started radiotheraphy last week and start my second week tomorrow there will be 15 sessions in total. I have an amazing cream called seven 7cream that is used in hospitals in the USA and Canada and is good for radiation burns etc.You can buy it from www.helios.co.uk. It is totally homeopathy and all natural ingredients.
Anyone experience pain in their non-cancerous breast? I started having pain in it during chemo. I had a clear mammogram in March and can not feel any lumps but still have a weird pain. Its like an ache and feels muscular at times…
I spoke too soon, everything was going great, then the scar under my arm started to feel tight, then itchy, now burning, very swollen, so off to the doctors, I have an infection, again.
back on antibiotics, with a steroid cream for the scar, I am so tired and sick of day time TV.
Ten days since treatment finished. I do hope this is as bad as it gets but with my luck probably not.
Really sorry to hear you are both still suffering from your burns - I hope you both heal soon and feel better.
I’ve had 12 now so only 3 to go!
So far so good, just a little sore around the nipple where my scar is.
Do you think it gets worse after you finish? Have I got that to look forward to lol.
It does seem to fly by once you get past the first few treatments.
I have been pretty lucky to be treated on time, give or take 20 minutes but yesterday I had my clinic appointment after my treatment. Got there and the machine had broken down so had a long wait hence the clinic appointments were running late. I was there for 2 and half hours and when I got out I had a parking ticket as I had parked in the street as couldn’t get in the car park and parking was only allowed there until 4pm and it was 4.15pm but ha ho! worse things happen.
only three to go that’s great. I had a couple of days like that my longest was seven hours door to door, same as you machine problem on the nurse clinic day, but the parking ticket is a real pain.
I was given instructions when I finished it said expect skin to get worse 10 days to two weeks. She also said the tiredness would get worse 3 to 4 weeks before it improved. I must admit I didn’t moisturise under my arm nearly as much as my breast so I think that might be making things worse.
hope you have a good weekend, just a few more days then it’s done.
Thanks for the info Keeks, it’s so good to know what is normal and what to expect. I saw the dr. yesterday but he didn’t say a lot just checked my skin and asked how I was. As far as I know I’m not seeing anybody else when I finish rads. Perhaps the nurses will give me info when I finish.
He said I would see my breast surgeon a year after the op which will be March next year and then I was given an appointment for May 2016 (yes thats right, two years ahead to go back to see him, the oncologist.
I seem to learn more from the copy letters I receive that go to the gp - the last letter told me I was having 40Gy of rads.
Haven’t posted for a while but have been reading!
Good to see that some of you have finished your rads. Hope you are all starting to feel better.
I have been ok up to yesterday when I felt exhausted and quite sad. I haven’t been sleeping well. I’m tired when I go to bed but just can’t go to sleep and wake up in the night and can’t get back to sleep - only had 3/4 hours sleep over the last few nights. Anyone else had trouble sleeping?
Feeling more positive this morning but still got 11 treatments to go.
My skin is holding up ok but have itchy nipple and very sore under my arm. Perhaps I haven’t applied as much cream as I could have. I’ve had 22 treatments so far so quite pleased that I don’t have any blistering.
Off to a wedding this weekend, so treated my self to new shoes and bag. Retail therapy is more fun than radio!
sorry to hear you are starting to feel the effects, my tiredness is so difficult to explain, it’s not a sleepy tiredness, so I can’t just take a nap. It’s more like I just cant be bothered. Unfortunately it also affects me emotionally. I get irritated easily, anoyed with things that normally wouldn’t bother me. everyone is getting on my nerves.
I feel like I could sleep for days but still wake at stupid oclock. I know I have limited energy so have to ration it. But a short walk every day does give me more energy. Sometimes it feels like I’ve been on a boat trip. Everything feels a little off centre. Or like I’m wearing someone else’s glasses.
My tiredness seems to have kicked in the last couple of days - I do wonder if it’s the stress of it all also. I don’t sleep very well either, I wake in the night and then can’t get back to sleep.
I’m just back from my treatment - really felt tired this morning and didn’t want to go, I felt exhausted but back now and tv on. So glad it’s Friday as I only have 2 more treatments to go to next week.
Really wish I could relax, I find myself getting up and down from the settee every few minutes to do something - I’m so used to being on the go all the time.