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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 13 9:43am | Replies (12)
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@brianjarvis 7 of 28 sessions have 3 stents can only take stuff that does impact my heart and blood thinners
Soreness pelvic area all the time
Need help determining how much water to drink some days they tell me 8 then 16 then back to end
Worry about how I am going to finish this treatment
See RAd doc next week may push for the max 5 session to get through it
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@mhordes The amount of radiation they use - called the biologic effective dose - is not just some random number that they can switch out. It’s calculated based on you and your cancer.
It’s also not good to be switching between different amounts of water each time. They want your bladder (and other organs) to be in exactly the same place each time.
> How many Grays of radiation are they giving you each session?
> Why “soreness pelvic area all the time”? Are they overshooting your prostate? Or too much radiation?
> Are you getting photon (IMRT) radiation or proton radiation?
You’ve gotta figure this out in order to finish all of your treatments.