Radiation treatment for Prostate ancer.

I just did 20 sessions of radiation ending the last week of October and I too was about an hour away from treatment. I'm 10 years younger but if you drive anyway, no reason you can't drive yourself to and from. As already said, the full bladder, empty bowel is the toughest challenge. The treatment itself is no big deal at all.
Best wishes. 👍👍👍

Been there, done that! In addition to the previous comments .... by the end of each week of treatment and increasing as the weeks went by .... my ass/rectal area became quite irritated and sore to sit on. While not a game changer, it was uncomfortable for the long drive home.

@mauiboy89
I had 5 radiation treatments. For a month or so, I carried a hospital pee bottle in the car and although I was able to drive 40 minutes home after radiation, I was glad to have the bottle as there were a couple of times I had to use it. thereafter.

Hopefully it is Proton Beam therapy, and not traditional radiation. Proton Beam is the newest and exceedingly better treatment for recurring prostate cancer. In brief, I have read that traditional radiation goes "to" and "through" the targeted area, thus causing all of the unfavorable consequences like permanent urinary incontinence, scarred urethra, scarred bladder, and rectal problems. But...Proton Beam therapy directs the radiation "to" the treatment area, but it stops there...it does not go "through" to cause damage to otherwise healthy surrounding tissue. I think traditional radiation therapy will be a thing of the past in the next 10 years as hospitals and radiology centers add Proton Beam instrumentation equipment to their services. Good luck to you.

Well..

Radiation treatments three different times, see attached clinical history.

Each treatment (69 total...) was done by the same radiologist.

I drove myself to and from each treatment.

During the last one, SBRT, my wife asked my radiologist "shouldn't I be coming to his radiation treatments to drive...!?" My radiologist's smiled, her response, "Kevin, no, he's fine...!"

Then again, during SRT I drank regular coffee and still had a Manhattan or two to close out the evening...

As others have indicated, your biggest challenge in driving to your appointments may be bladder management!

Study of one...

Kevin

@kujhawk1978
Thanks for the information. Bladder issues, fatigue and sleep are my biggest concerns.
I hope it's OK to down a few beers during the Super Bowl.

@mauiboy89

I did not experience fatigue...

No issues with sleep...

Bladder manages was my biggest "hassle!"

Enjoy those beers.

Chiefs, Chargers and Bills are out so I have no dog in the fight.

Kevin