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Approximate time for stomach,bowels to settle 28day Photon radiation?
A 4-3 with 7 Gleason , did 28 weekdays Photon treatments, stayed on recommended diet. Still getting up 3-6 times at night. Any gas will expedite urgency with urination, stomach & bowels, starting to reform, still not doing any beans, raw veggies, sometimes tylenol & cranberry extract pills help with any burning urination, and I think tylenol helps with the swelling for bowel movements. Just missing my spicy hot and burritos, hot Asian (any type food)
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Regarding the burning urination. I’ve heard that if having pain and burning during urination (dysuria) caused by radiation treatments, once they’ve ruled out a UTI and prostatitis, try these in this order:
> Avoid fruit juice, smoothies, etc. with citric acid.
> Try NSAIDs (Ibuprofen/Alleve/Advil/Naproxin/Motrin).
> Try Prescription NSAIDS (Celebrex)
> Try Medrol dose-packs (steroids)
> Finally, try the over-the-counter product called Azo (it’s basically a urinary analgesic).
As always, check with your doctor about these remedies first.
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3 Reactionseight months after completing 44 treatments to prostate and pelvis, I am still having 4-6 bowel movements daily. i am working with a gastroenterologist to improve and the consistency is becoming less like diarrhea. I take psyllium husks as prebiotic and a probiotic along with Imodium. I am seeing slight improvement but have to be near a toilet 5 am-10 am. I’m up about 5 times nightly to urinate, but that pre-existed treatment. I’ve not found an effective medication.
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1 ReactionI too struggled after 28 sessions of Proton. Couldn’t walk with my wife in the morning after eating as I had problems as you described. I am now 12 months down the road and things are better. Metamucil, probiotic much the same as you helped over time. I also think this may be common after longer regimes of radiation. I think you are doing the right things, I would suggest flexible sigmoidoscopy if things don’t improve. It was a long road but it got better. I am not a doctor but maybe you should ask your gastro about FS. I did not see you reference bleeding.