Hello all, happy birthday @chillout365 , and how has RT been so far for you, if I remember from earlier messages @1980 and @saffron1 among others were also starting RT around nowadays.
I have had my first treatment earlier today. It went ok, I could hold my breath. But, for the last few hours I have had a lot of pain on my left breast, burning sensation and as if I have a wound there. Hope it won’t last long as it is so uncomfortable.
How are you all doing? Is my pain normal on day 1?
Best wishes 
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Thank you, yes a birthday treat like no other, strangely the man that went in before me also had a birthday today.
For me so far okay, had first treatment at lunchtime today, and I’ve moisturised three
times since, breathing was better than I thought it might be.
Have a word tomorrow if it’s still uncomfortable , I avoid looking at side effects wherever possible as I get paranoid and will have every symptom going.
Keep in touch
J xx
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Hi saffron1
How did your first session go today?
Mine seemed to go okay. Got my next one tomorrow afternoon and then a mad dash to
a different hospital for Ct scan on my kidney.
Least we get a weekend break from it all.
Sending good wishes
J xx
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Hi
Nan babe just hoping you got good results today
Thinking of you & everyone going through this
J xx
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Hi chillout365,
Great news, I’m so pleased to hear all went well. I hope the rest are similar. I’ve had complications with unresolved nausea and an infection affecting the scar around my nipple. So the radiotherapy has had to be postponed. It’s been complicated but we have decided to pay to see an oncologist privately to get a clearer picture. With my pre-existing conditions, especially long covid, which still has me laid pretty low (although I’ve definitely improved) I don’t want to add further load on my system until it feels ready. Sending you all good wishes for a complete and uncomplicated recovery. x
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Hi all. Sorry I’ve not posted any updates after starting this thread. Radiotherapy is now finished and everything went ok. I drove myself there and back every day but had the massive benefit of my partner coming with me for every appointment. I initially thought I could do it on my own but I’m so glad he was with me. The sessions were fine, most of them on time and over and done with in about 20 minutes. Really feeling fatigue side effects now though and been asleep more or less for 3 days. Hence the wide awake now at this time! Hope everyone is doing ok xx
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Dear Casey,
Wishing you well going forward, so pleased to read you will be taking part in the Moving Forward Course, I feel you will get great comfort, not only from the course, but from others attending, sitting chatting to different people about different roads they’ve gone down so they cancer journey. I’ve personally found this course outstanding.
Happy Easter, happiness going forward keep posting a little us know how you’re doing hugs Tili 
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Hope it took the edge of the radiotherapy for you 
It definitely did and I had this beautiful ceiling to look at. All went well, minimal side effects and hope you and everybody else on here are having an easy time on this strange tough road.
xxx
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I was looking up at palm trees during my rt. Trouble is it was similar to the pic at my dentist. Yikes!
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oh that’s made me laugh ! Can’t remember what I was looking at but I’m a music fan and they had a different playlist on every day and it was all good music so I focussed on that . Xx
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Mine played music too. Made it very difficult to keep still though. I wanted to jig about.
I remarked a couple of times that they were being mean when they were drawing on me at the start of each session, asking me to hold my breath, then they tickle me with their pens. Very unfair!
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I had that view too @nannabee !
There was music in that room, and none in the other where I had the other four of the five sessions, which made it all seem very serious (which it was, but the music really helped).
There was a flowering cherry on the ceiling in the main room I had my RT in though, which was nice.
All done 3 weeks ago - the skin on my chest (Mx) is crazily itchy and so red. Using Flamigel and Aloe Vera - hoping it will calm down soon. The RT seemed to think so when I had my follow-up call.
Onwards and upwards.
Karen x
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@casey4jc hi Karen, yes anything that makes the radiotherapy easier please. My last session was 5 weeks ago and I am now only occasionally slightly itchy so hopefully it will ease for you quickly too. I used aloe vera gel too, it was so cooling and the only thing that eased the itching. I’m now having to apply chemotherapy to a skin cancer on my back for six weeks, one week completed and it’s getting very itchy already.
Sending you healing thoughts xxxx
My initial appointment was all about making sure I could hold my breath for 20 seconds. I have to hold it for that long for each treatment. It wasn’t bad, because I could. It went very quickly. The techs basically explained what I would go through each time it was quick and not intimidating.
The tech’s played music that is currently popular. I hated it. Soft classical music would have been much more relaxing. I should have spoken up