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Help with no gas, empty bowel diet during RT.
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@brianjarvis thank you Brian, I was curious how long it took from drinking water until it hit the bladder, your 30 minute scenario seems to be very doable. I don't yet have my actual instructions from my radiologist as far as how much he wants me to drink and how far in advance, but I will certainly start working on this routine.
As far as the bowels being empty, I'm in the process of moving to a FODMAP diet and using some non fermentable fiber to help replace the fiber I'll be losing that should help with emptying my bowels, and throwing in some simethicone to help with the gas.
I have received some amazing tips and recommendations from this group, I'm still a bit nervous to start radiation, but not anything like the nerve ending I was before I asked for help. And for that, I am grateful.
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@carlsbadguy As for being nervous, by the time I made the decision to have proton radiation, I had spent so much time researching it, there was no nervousness or ambivalence whatsoever.
In fact, I was looking forward to it. It was like a walk-in-a-park.
Every session, I went in with questions for the radiation specialists - How does this work? How does that work? What does that mean? Why do you do it that way? Every day - for 28 sessions - we had great technical conversations.
At the time, I could tell you how many ceiling tiles there were in the radiation treatment room, what each sound of the machine meant, how many seconds the radiation was on each pass that it swept over me.
While I was on the radiation treatment table, I would even envision the proton beams destroying the DNA strands in the prostate cancer cells (see attached graphic), similar to how an athlete mentally envisions himself successfully performing a competitive event.
I truly embraced the experience.