What helped you recover after radiation for skin cancer?

Mia, you’re a very brave soul and it sounds like you have been through a lot and you deserve some peace in your life. I would say that the worst part is over and now comes the healing process, you are eating well and supplementing with vitamins, with time and keeping up on your health as you’re already doing, mostly time is your best friend and soon you will feel more confident about yourself and the changes inside will become your new self, best wishes and a happy life ahead.

Hi! Can anyone out there help with how they recovered after radiation? I’m now cancer free after 20 sessions of radiation. I’m still tired and just not feeling like myself yet. What foods, supplements helped the most during your recovery ❤️‍🩹 after your radiation treatments? Thanks very much! Blessings and I will pray 🙏 for all of us to heal completely. 💐💕🙏

Congratulations to you on being cancer free, it’s a wonderful feeling after going through much pain and suffering, I know you’re looking for responses from others who have had radiation treatments, I am a cancer patient but I haven’t had anything but surgery thus far but I know it’s probably something I need to consider, I’ve read many posts here from people who have been through this process and some sounded very positive and then others have had a very difficult time with radiation treatment. I suppose that it’s just different for everyone and how well they can handle the effects but it can also be helpful to talk about your experience, best wishes to you for a speedy recovery.

I was still paraplegic right after I finished radiation, so my experiences were atypical, but my recommendation for recovery is lots of moderation. 🙂

DO keep active with moderate exercise (even just raking leaves or walking to the store is a good start).

DO eat normal, healthy meals.

DO take a 20-min power nap in the afternoon if you feel like one.

DON'T drive yourself to do extreme exercise. Silence your inner drill sergeant. Right now, pain means *no* gain.

DON'T eat excessively large, fried fatty meals (except as sometimes treats): digesting those takes a surprising amount of energy, and you don't have that energy to spare right now.

DON'T worry that you'll always feel like this. Your body is busy healing the collateral radiation damage, so it's drawing a lot of your energy budget right now, but it's only temporary.

Best of luck!

@northoftheborder Thanks so much!!! I really appreciate all of these helpful tips. I also think my thyroid was affected, so I’m also supporting that as well with some a couple of extra Brazil nuts per day. Sending you healing ❤️‍🩹 blessings, I hope you have your energy back, you’re giving me hope. God bless!!! 💕🙏😍💐😍🙏💕

Anyone have ICC surgery with HAPI (intera 3000) treatments have the cancer move to the bone? I’m starting radiation next week as the lesions are small. Even if you don’t have the pump but know it’s a long shot with that. If anyone has words of experience and / or encouragement I would be grateful.

After the surgeon oncologist removed the tumor I was cancer free btw.

Mitzi H .

@mhallmark, just to make sure I've interpreted the abbreviations correctly. You had surgery for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) combined with Hepatic Artery Infusion Pump (HAPI) therapy using the Intera 3000 HAI Pump. Now they have found spread to the bone and you have started radiation therapy.

Do I have that right?

You will find discussions about Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) in the Liver Cancer support group here: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/liver-cancer/
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How is radiation going? Are you receiving treatments daily?

@colleenyoung yes that’s correct .

@colleenyoung oh - radiation is going good but is very painful. For this, it’s been 5 treatments in a row. Then I’ll have a rest time then chemo treatments start at EOY.

@mhallmark, sorry to hear radiation was painful. How is recovery going as you prepare for chemotherapy?