weight gain???

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hey don’t want to appear silly but only diagnosed on Thursday and I still haven’t really read anything official, scares me! so maybe someone can answer my question, been told will need 5 weeks of radiotherapy eek! do they give you any drugs during this that make you gain weight? or is that just if you have chemo, sorry but I am a newbie :slight_smile: - and I know I should just be worried about living I am trust me, this is not going to beat me! but just trying to find things out, thanks

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Hi sunflower

There aren’t many rules on here, but one of them is “there’s no such thing as a silly question” so ask away.

I had five weeks of rads at the end of the whole shootingnmathc (chemo first, surgery second, rads third). There are no drugs with rads so nothing to do anything wierd to your weight. However, some people get a lot of fatigue and find it hard to eat an ideal diet and/or do a bit of comfort eating so small weight gain may occur.

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hello sunflower… i had 17 radiotherapy … 5 a week i got wk ends off … the only drugs i was given are hormone receptor … tamoxifen at the time…and yes they did cause weight gain… 4 me… not everyone gains weight. i dont think radiotherapy alone causes weight gain. and your not silly … your concerned … dont google … just read the leaflets the hospital gave you … or speak to your breast care nurse… us lot on here are good at answering questions 2 angie xx

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thank you so much for your replies, I didn’t know you had posted a reply I am just trying to get my head round how this website then looked in my saved discussions and there you were hiding :wink:
thank you for the info actually though I don’t think I need to worry that much now, since my first call back letter to today I have lost 10 pound I am not huge size 12/14 so that really isn’t good I know that, but stomach feels like it has elastic bands around it really don’t fancy food. It’s amazing though how many clothes I have found at the back of the wardrobe that I had grown too big for and thought “one day I will slim down to fit into them” (knowing I never would!) and now I can fit into them just wish it was for a different reason :frowning: