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Side effects three days post prostate radiation?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 31 5:52pm | Replies (36)Comment receiving replies
Does anybody know or been told if after the gold seeds (fiducial markers) implantation and up to the radiation treatment sessions, if there is no SpacerOAR involved, it's okey to ride the bike? My gold seeds were implanted last We'd., March 26 and though Í asked my RO and care team, I was told that inmy case, spacer is not needed. (They told me the cases in which they, this particular cancer center, do spacer for their patients, so I have reason to believe them it's not needed in my case.) My SBRT treatments start on April 9.
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@vircet
With the Space/Oar both my consultation with R/Os said no riding bike prior, during and right after.
You did not have Space/Oar. However, sitting on a bike seat (especially road bikes) puts a lot of pressure on your prostate. Per my R/Os and PCP you don't want to irritate your prostate when having PSA tests (possibly can raise the PSA level due to irritation). During your radiation treatments your prostate is going under tremendous damage, and you don't want to add more irritation to it. Then after you want your prostate to return to normal as quick as possible so not adding more irritation to it is what my R/Os were trying to educate me on.