Radiation therapy side effects

I have never heard of radiation treatments causing brain fog or memory loss. I have been on weekly advanced prostate cancer online meetings for 5 years and no one has mentioned having that side effect.

If your husband was also given Lupron, fermagon or Eligard, which is frequently done, those can cause the problems you describe.

Thank you for your response.

@nole88
I echo jeffmarc comment that have never heard of this side affect.

Is your husband on any type of hormone treatment or other medication with his radiation? How is he sleeping? Is he worrying about his cancer that can affect him mentally. Asked your R/O or urologist about your concerns.

The type of radiation used now is no where close to the brain. Again not heard of this but please do not take that as a medical answer, asked your R/O and or Urologist.

Being diagnosed with prostrate cancer and going through extensive radiation treatments is very stressful. Some take the stress very well as others will have side affects both mentally (from the stress) and physically from the radiation.

You PCP, R/O and urologist should be monitoring mental side affects as well as physical ones. Luckily I very minor physically side affects and was able to keep exercising. Exercise has always been a stress relief for me and I think if that had not been possible I probably would not have handled the stress and worry as I did.

Avoid radiation. Get robotic prostatectomy.

I have not heard of brain fog from radiation, but I did radiation and hormone therapy and had a slight brain fog for awhile. I finished treatments and no more shots and the fog has disappeared.

Why is that

Strange advice. This person may have already had a prostatectomy and had to have follow up radiation because the cancer came back. That happened to me.

Radiation is replacing a prostatectomy for more people because it is very successful. There are also multiple types of radiation to choose from. At least you don’t end up unable to get an erection which happens almost every time with surgery.

So I started 28 sessions of IMRTon Monday. Yesterday was day 2 and I started having pain which seemed to be in my prostate. I have had proctitis in the past and it feels like that. Has any else had pain like this during treatment?

I haven't heard of brain fog with radiation only. However, I have heard that radiation side effects can come back after several years. Regarding brain fog, I personally have a ton of brain fog due to the ADT and Aberitaron. I have started to see a cognitive therapist that works with cancer patients. I have only been to 3 sessions. I am learning how to change some of the way I think and process things to hopefully build new pathways in the brain.

I had 35+ sessions and never felt anything after them. Some people reported fatigue, not heard of anyone reporting pain, Anything is possible, I guess. Why don’t you ask your doctor about it?