Recovery post treatment
Hi out there... I have just finished my last radiotherapy appointment following a mastectomy and immediate reconstruction in Feb (with sentinal node removal only - node was positive after final pat...
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hi, I am post 5 weeks radiation treatment after 2 lots of surgery and chemo. I am having joint and muscle pain also. I am at my wits end with the pain as I too am trying to get back my pre cancer fitness. I spoke to my radiation dr about the pain yesterday and told him how it was affecting my daily life and he basically laughed in my face and said i'll prescribe anti depressants for the pain (over my dead body).
Anyway today I just happened to go to a farmers market and a lady there was selling this powdered turmeric product which she says people swear by for inflammation and she also mentioned that I need to build my body back up from a cellular level as the good cells have been destroyed hence why I am getting the muscle and joint pain. So I am going to look into rebuilding from a cellular level and I am also going to take the turmeric (I currently take the tablets but the powder is supposedly better and more soluble and absorded into the body easier I have heard)
Anyway today I just happened to go to a farmers market and a lady there was selling this powdered turmeric product which she says people swear by for inflammation and she also mentioned that I need to build my body back up from a cellular level as the good cells have been destroyed hence why I am getting the muscle and joint pain. So I am going to look into rebuilding from a cellular level and I am also going to take the turmeric (I currently take the tablets but the powder is supposedly better and more soluble and absorded into the body easier I have heard)