Last Chemo

I just finished 6 weeks of rads on the 1st of December. I am Irish so my skin is fair. I started using Moo goo udder cream about a week before and am still using it everyday and it’s 11 days later. I was radiated on my neck chest and under my arm with a week booster on my mastectomy scar. My skin held out really well. I recommend you do what I did which is leave a pump bottle of moo goo in the on suite bathroom and main. Everytime I went to the loo during the day I reapplied. It worked for me. I had no other side effects and the weeks flew by. Good luck xx

Thank you ladies for all your help and lovely words i check back in and let you all know how im traveling .

Yayyyyyyyyyy @Barney74 , Congratulations!!!

All the best for rads Xx Cath

Hi @Barney74


Congrats on finishing chemo.  I had 6 weeks radiation.  I have dodgy skin at the best of times and was really worried about it.  It held up well until half way through week 5.  Moo Goo is excellent. I used it 4 or 5 times a day.  The nurses used some solosite and guaze when it started to fall apart then flamazine after I finished rads. Because of the silver in it I had to wait till the end to use it. Everything healed up really quickly.  I didn't have a  problem with the fatigue so that was good.
All the best.

I got pure sorboline from chemist warehouse, i think it was $7.99 for the tub, i'm not even halfway through the tub. 
I have been using cortisone cream on my chest where I have had the worst reaction, although i've also got some dermatitis on my back. My radiation oncologist said i could use the same cortisone on that too, but I can't reach it. I just used it sparingly, then sorboline over the top of that and my skin has coped remarkably well. (i have the cortisone for flexural psoriasis - unrelated to my cancer)
I have also had indigestion and some nausea as well as pain in the breast area, it's also a bit puffy. So I have pain killers for that, pills for the indigestion, pills & wafers for the nausea....oh & sleeping pills to help me sleep. 
However, tomorrow is my last one... yay!! 

Good luck with your radiation, apparently nausea and indigestion are not regular side effects of radiation.. so likely you won't have to go through that. 
I am claustrophobic, so get there half hour early & they give me a lorazepam to help me handle the machine. 
I have photo's of me laying on the bed in front of the machine if you wanted to see what it looks like? 
I've kept a regular thing going on facebook explaining step by step of my treatments for my friends and family, so had them take pic of me and the machine. 

Well done@Barney74  with finishing chemo it’s always a relief isn’t it.  No rads for me as I had a mastectomy so I only had to have chemo and no rads. I work as a nurse in gp clinic and have used a cream called flamazine to treat the rads burns on patients. As long as you’re not allergic to silver it works well and is kept in the fridge so feels lovely and cool when applied if you need it. If you do your gp can give you a script for it too to use at home. Margie x 

It's a long haul but you are getting there. Well done! 
Burns during rads are common. Mine were at their worse about 10 days after I'd finished which was a bit insulting! Anyway, by the time you figure out how your skin will react and what works to help you will be done.
As the others have said, fatigue is a big factor. I drove myself to treatment every day and clocked up nearly 7000  km. I was really pleased about not getting in the car every day and slept for a week when it was all over.

Hi I had single mastectomy + axillary clearance, followed by 5 1/2 months of chemo and 5 weeks of radio.  I did get tired the last week of radio and then for about a week after.  A different tired from Chemo, not the fatigue, just exhausted and needed to sleep. My naturopath suggested calendula cream which I used to apply 2-3 times per day to my breast and neck area.  I only had mild burn in breast region and a bit of skin breakdown around neck - all manageable. I found radio much easier on my body and mental state.  Good luck - almost there!

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