tip or tricks on getting through radiation?
Hi all. I haven't been on here for quite a few months as I was super unwell with chemo, (that's a story in itself) My chemo has come to a close now due to many side effects etc, so now I move to th...
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update for all who have jumped on here to show their support and give their own thoughts,
Radiation kicks off this coming Monday 20th May, for 6 weeks , I had to buy the StrataXRT cream, my word its got a massive price tag even with the discount coupon I was given by the nurse at the clinic.
The mapping app went ok, I guess, I had nothing to compare it to, so had no idea what's was truly involved.
I'm not getting along with my rad oncologist DR at all. She isn't a nice person, nor are the nurses at this clinic I have been sent to by my team at the hospital.
Its 1/2 private and 1/2 public, so no surprises on how they look at their public patients. well that's what I'm finding any way, like I'm just another one of those people they have to treat, not one who got the private health insurance they swan over, yes I've watched them do this as they have 2 reception counters, one for public and one for private, right next door to each other.
Dose you skin return back to normal at all after all this radiation finishes?
I'm told the skin will thicken etc. but with using all these creams and doing what they tell you to do, will the skin ever return back to being soft and smooth like it was before the treatment even started?
It just amazes me, that you do everything in your power to save the breast, go through chemo, takes the advice and do as they say, only to put you through such a treatment that can disfigure the breast,
Has anyone had their breast change size? but then did it return back to the size it was before radiation?
if not, then what's you experience in bras' so to speak?
I have not brought myself anything nice in the underwear range since this hole breast cancer nightmare started back in late Dec 2022
My rad oncologist wasn't keen to answer any of my question regarding any of these things, only happy to speak of the facts and then shove me out the door.
in fact she dismisses most of my points and questions, and looks down on me completely, only again re sighting the fact sheet they give you.
Nice lady , not!
feeling a little, no a lot worried, that my breast wont ever go back to the way it was, and is right now,
feeling like I'm on the count down to the end of what I have now, before it gets taken away from me.
Radiation kicks off this coming Monday 20th May, for 6 weeks , I had to buy the StrataXRT cream, my word its got a massive price tag even with the discount coupon I was given by the nurse at the clinic.
The mapping app went ok, I guess, I had nothing to compare it to, so had no idea what's was truly involved.
I'm not getting along with my rad oncologist DR at all. She isn't a nice person, nor are the nurses at this clinic I have been sent to by my team at the hospital.
Its 1/2 private and 1/2 public, so no surprises on how they look at their public patients. well that's what I'm finding any way, like I'm just another one of those people they have to treat, not one who got the private health insurance they swan over, yes I've watched them do this as they have 2 reception counters, one for public and one for private, right next door to each other.
Dose you skin return back to normal at all after all this radiation finishes?
I'm told the skin will thicken etc. but with using all these creams and doing what they tell you to do, will the skin ever return back to being soft and smooth like it was before the treatment even started?
It just amazes me, that you do everything in your power to save the breast, go through chemo, takes the advice and do as they say, only to put you through such a treatment that can disfigure the breast,
Has anyone had their breast change size? but then did it return back to the size it was before radiation?
if not, then what's you experience in bras' so to speak?
I have not brought myself anything nice in the underwear range since this hole breast cancer nightmare started back in late Dec 2022
My rad oncologist wasn't keen to answer any of my question regarding any of these things, only happy to speak of the facts and then shove me out the door.
in fact she dismisses most of my points and questions, and looks down on me completely, only again re sighting the fact sheet they give you.
Nice lady , not!
feeling a little, no a lot worried, that my breast wont ever go back to the way it was, and is right now,
feeling like I'm on the count down to the end of what I have now, before it gets taken away from me.