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Have you had TACE or SirSpheres radiation treatment? Please share
Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Sep 14, 2016 | Replies (48)Comment receiving replies
Thank you @bbams for voicing your perspective frankly and respectfully to @irvkay312. We all get to our stages in due time. Kay has found peace in hospice care and we are grateful to his sharing frankly about this stage in life. Often it is not talked about.
But let's get back to you and your husband. It appears that you are well aware of the road ahead, and that you and your husband are focused on living with eyes wide open. I'm tagging @sue_in_delaware in the hopes that she can share her experience with SIRT.
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Hi bbams, I'm glad to hear the procedure went well and that the radiologist could problem-solve some of the symptoms with you. Caffeine withdrawal headaches can be brutal. It can be hard to consider that a symptom might not have anything to do with the cancer.
Do keep us posted on the results and symptoms from SIRT.
It never even crossed my mind that it wouldn't be cancer related! Ha. He doesn't drink a crazy amount of caffeine in the first place (I do) so I didn't think about that. Headaches could mean very scary things though so that was a relief... and of course he had a little caffeine and it went away. Sigh. I'll let you know how it goes... when he starts talking to me again :/ Has just been VERY VERY tired since the procedure but he's looking a little better the last few days 🙂
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Thank you both.
Chris had his procedure on the 10th and it went well. The interventional radiologist had some ideas of what these things could be. Headaches simply could be caffeine withdrawal because Chris decided to give up caffeine 2 days earlier. haha. It's been better since. The fevers can actually be a sign that the radiation is killing the tumor!!! Apparently that's a normal reaction to it working. FINGERS CROSSED!!! Baseline CT in 3 weeks but they really don't start seeing if it worked for 4-6 months.