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Peeing issues: EBRT and urgency

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 27 11:26am | Replies (12)

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Can you let me know was EBRT Fractions is? Is it like SBRT, photon radiation, proton radiation or something else?

To give you my experience. When I was going through 30 rounds of proton radiation the main thing I developed was a very high urgeny to urinate. Was really hard not to dribble trying to get to toiliet. I decided not take medication for it as I found if I wen to urinate when I thought I could that prevented the urgency if I waited. I had little to no other side affects.

About 2 years after my treatments ended started having a lot more need to urinate, dribbling, urgency. I had a 2 year follow up with my R/O who said is very common. He prescribed Cialis (got generic). I had appointment with PCP to discuss taking the prescription and alos why after two years having some issues did not have during treatments. My PCP says the prostate has really gone through war and can act up later. He left it up to me to try the Cialis or not.

I was getting up about 3 times a night to urinate but did not seem like a lot. I took the generic (can't remember name as I type this) and found I only got up once during night and had a lot more urination. I talked to my PCP about this and he said although was intended (Cialis) for BP it was found to help with ED and now it has shown to help with relaxing the prostate, bladder, uretha. So for me the very low dose of Cialis worked and improved my symptoms.

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In External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT), a total radiation dose is divided into smaller, separate doses called fractions (in my case, 20). Each fraction is a portion of the total prescribed dose (for me 55Gy), and the therapy is delivered over multiple treatment sessions.
Thanks for sharing about Cialis.