Radiation esophagitis
Just wondering if anyone else had a painful throat from radiation. Mine started around day 4 and I'm now up to number 10 out of 25 zaps. Told I have esophagitis. Already having trouble swallowing from...
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@LMK74 I am starting the last week of radiation tomorrow, thank goodness.
I am very burnt, and the skin is starting to blister in places. It is very painful under my arm, and I get very tired. I can just close my eyes and feel like nodding off at any time of the day.
It is also making me rather nauseous at times, and I get cold shivers, rather like when you have sunburn, I guess.
The lovely nurses are dressing my chest every day, and sent me home with dressings over the weekend. The tight skin makes it unpleasant again to raise my arm above my head, so I am trying to gently stretch it out.
still, only five more treatments to go, I guess at least I can see that it is working.
The technicians are very gentle and try hard not to hurt, so it could be worse, but I am really over all the mucking around now and get quite teary especially after showering and redressing myself.
I hope you find something to ease the throat problem, you don't need that on top of everything else. Jennie
I am very burnt, and the skin is starting to blister in places. It is very painful under my arm, and I get very tired. I can just close my eyes and feel like nodding off at any time of the day.
It is also making me rather nauseous at times, and I get cold shivers, rather like when you have sunburn, I guess.
The lovely nurses are dressing my chest every day, and sent me home with dressings over the weekend. The tight skin makes it unpleasant again to raise my arm above my head, so I am trying to gently stretch it out.
still, only five more treatments to go, I guess at least I can see that it is working.
The technicians are very gentle and try hard not to hurt, so it could be worse, but I am really over all the mucking around now and get quite teary especially after showering and redressing myself.
I hope you find something to ease the throat problem, you don't need that on top of everything else. Jennie