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Posted 7/20/2012 2:43 AM (GMT 0)
Didn't mean to leave, lost my ID. S'pose the cancer didn't leave either. Fourth day of radiation. I do it over lunch, the hospital is a mile and a half away and I power walk there and back.

You can read the history down below.

I started feeling this pain on the back/right side of my perineum about four or five months ago, started really bothering me about six weeks ago. They couldn't feel a lump. Maybe it was in my head, maybe not.

First day of radiation I swore I had this metal taste in my mouth just seconds after they started going Chernobyl. Maybe in my head, maybe not. It went away after about four hours, nothing big.

That night, the area with the pain was telling me it wasn't happy the way it had been treated that day. Can't pinpoint the feeling, just something was not the same. Maybe in my head, maybe not.

This morning, I feel just a slight bit of skin tightness in the area surrounding that pain. And tonight, that imaginary lump is itching, like a deep cut that is starting to heel, or a boil deep down that needs lancing. Very subtle.

Maybe it is all in my head. But for four years before the Dx they told me that the feeling I had that something wasn't right down there -- well, that was all in my head, too.

Right now, with radiation started I am not scared or depressed like I was for the last three months or so.
Posted 7/20/2012 2:52 AM (GMT 0)
welcome back, biker. good luck with your radaition, can't believe you walk there an back, not sure you will be able to do that later on, but good for you if you can. others have reported metalic taste, so may not be in your head. now when i underwent neck/throat radiation years ago, that was a major problem for me, and i wouldnt eat, and loss massive amounts of weight, but that was different.

so how much radiaton are you having, don't see it in your stats.

best of luck to you

david
Posted 7/20/2012 5:49 PM (GMT 0)
180 cGy a day, 38 treatments for total dose of 6840 cGy.

Five days and feeling fine,walking time reduced three minutes each way this week.

BG

Post Edited (BikerGuy) : 7/20/2012 2:19:40 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 7/20/2012 8:05 PM (GMT 0)
Keep up that walking if you can help it, Biker
Let's hope the treatments work. It's better to treat it than to brood about it - I had the same feeling when I started SRT - I'm doing what I can. That made me feel more like a fighter than a victim.
I felt absolutely nothing the first two weeks, only fatigue after that.
All my best
Jeff
Posted 7/20/2012 8:17 PM (GMT 0)
Sounds like you're doing great so far. The walking will help delay the fatigue. Keep it up as long as you can.

While I was doing my radiation I'd get all kinds of weird aches and pains. Some lasting a few hours and some a few days. At one point the area around where they took out my gallbladder starting to hurt real bad. Then the pain went away shortly after I talked to the RO about it.

Expect the unexpected for awhile.

All the best.
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