Another sound out for breast cancer survivors?

Now that my surgery is behind me, I am facing radiation and possibly chemo. I'll know more from my doctors next week. I will ask my docs these questions, but until afterwards -- my question is for those who have or are facing radiation - please tell me your experiences, worthy or bad. I'm trying to get my research and questions done this weekend.

Thanks, YA community for your assist.
Answers:     I have radiation 2 different times, 2 sides. It really doesn't amount to much. The planning session is a bit tough as you have to hold still for what seems like a long time while they dupe you up and they may put some small (like freckles) tattoos on you for positioning for your rad sessions. The actual radiation takes only a minute or two. You will likely attain tired toward the last couple weeks. The first time I got what looked like a sunburn, the second time zilch. Get a tube of GlaxolBase cream and take it with you to put on after your treatment - not before. Check beside your radiation oncologist before using any product or dietary supplement during treatment.
The surgery was the easiest part of the ordeal. Chemotherapy and radiation be about equal in severity except my wife never took percocet for chemotherapy and she did for radiation treatments.
will go within at a certain time and there will be the same family you see every day. Friendships will begin and you will share your stories of your cancer journeys and experiences.

For us:

Of course, it is all different because we are all different. Even with like peas in a pod kind of cancer every person experiences it in their own agency.

We are now a year through it, in fact yesterday we have our first three month appointment with our breast cancer oncologist. Everything is great. It had been a year since we met her and a year yesterday we be going in for our first chemotherapy treatment.
goes by fast. Hope yours will too!
I had radiotherapy every day Monday to Friday for five weeks - 25 sessions.

It's tedious, but for me that be the worst thing about it.

I did continue to consistency tired for a few months after treatment, but honestly I put this down to the treatment in its entirety - surgery and anaesthetic, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, rather than just the rads.

I didn't burn - my skin be slightly pink by the end of my 25 sessions; this too, of course, varies from entity to person. If you have very impartial skin you may be more likely to burn - it's rather like sunburn. You will be given cream for the nouns.
n't know if you had a mastectomy or lumpectomy. I don't know if the statistics bear this out, but from talking to women contained by support networks it seems to me those who had lumpectomies suffered form burning rather more - more creases and folds to irritate rathe than a flat nouns, I suppose.

The actual process doesn't take long, and it's not painful or uncomfortable at adjectives - though you do have to lie completely still. The machine is big but it doesn't touch you.

Good luck with the rest of your treatment
Haven't been through it myself. But here is one story: http://anaximperator.wordpress.com/about…
And it is possible to ask for further details if you like. However this is in the order of experiences going through chemotherapy - not radiation. Source(s): http://anaximperator.wordpress.com
Radiation is different for everyone, it depends on how your skin reacts.
s able to programme my appointments for either early or late respectively day, so was still able to work part of the pack time throughout.

I did find it very tiring, but that may have ben the 1 hour drive on country roads each method.

From consequently on my burns were dressed each day by the nurse after my treatment. Antibiotic burn dressing next wrapped in cling wrap!

From then on, it was a struggle mentally to force myself to preserve treating me, felt like I was going and asking to be tortured! And the burning get worse for about 4 days after the last treatment before it starts improving.
the open wounds healed, I actually found a product call body butter (my teenage daughter bought it for me and I felt obliged to try it) in fact worked really well.

I still have scaring and thicken skin in the area, which confuses things on mammograms and in self examinations (I with the sole purpose had lumpectomy).


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