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One week of IMRT for recurrent PCa - issue with empty rectum
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@rotate Wow, that most have been challenging, to say the least. Glad you got through it.
All is going better for me after making a couple dietary tweaks. And I have a really good relationship with the radiation therapist. We are both straight up and honest with each other, and seem to work well together well. I am very thankful that. She is watching out for me, and I am grateful for that!
Many thanks for sharing your experience.
M
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@melvinw It was a nightmare. The best time of day was when I was on the radiation bench and the x-rays showed all was okay.
Good luck to you. It sounds like you have it under control.
BTW, I didn't have a single radiation therapist at Mayo's Phoenix proton center, but they were all very nice and very helpful. But this problem was one I had to figure out mostly myself, with a little help from the GI folks.
And I didn't mention... in the middle of all this, I caught C. diff - a nasty gut infection, and that added more steps to my regiment (taking vancomycin several times a day). It was amusing to go to radiation and see the techs donning rubber smocks and gloves, due to the contagious nature of C. diff. But they did it all in good spirits.