Severe pain after stage2 y90 treatment

Posted by baker23 @baker23, 2 days ago

5 days ago I had y90 embolization to the liver for metastatic nonfunctional NET. Severe pain and vomiting after procedure. Had to be admitted for 3 days. At home now. Still in pain and constipated. Stopped opioid use yesterday. Pain was so bad I was screaming coming out of the procedure. Anyone else experience this?

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I'm sorry you're in so much pain. I pray that you find out it was worth it.
My husband had y90 15 years ago. He did have a great deal of pain. He typically has an extremely high pain tolerance but that seemed to hit him pretty hard. It did get better but it took a little while. You're still only a few days out but hopefully you start feeling better soon.

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So sorry you had this occurrence. I had this 3 years ago and had truly no side effects. Please get back to your doctor and relay these after effects. This doesn’t sound normal.
I was given a light pain reliever but didn’t need to take it.

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@gamaryanne

So sorry you had this occurrence. I had this 3 years ago and had truly no side effects. Please get back to your doctor and relay these after effects. This doesn’t sound normal.
I was given a light pain reliever but didn’t need to take it.

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Thank you. The IR department didn’t even leave me a phone number to call. I finally called the triage nurse at my liver oncologist’s office who gave me some remedies to relieve the constipation. Ironically my PCP called me Monday and asked me to come in today. He gets my reports even though he’s with a different group. I had a double mastectomy with reconstruction 3 years ago and they called me almost every day to see how I was doing. Go figure.

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@baker23

Thank you. The IR department didn’t even leave me a phone number to call. I finally called the triage nurse at my liver oncologist’s office who gave me some remedies to relieve the constipation. Ironically my PCP called me Monday and asked me to come in today. He gets my reports even though he’s with a different group. I had a double mastectomy with reconstruction 3 years ago and they called me almost every day to see how I was doing. Go figure.

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I'm glad you're doctors are following up. Good on your PCP for reading and following up on the reports! He's a keeper!

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The Dr that did the y-9o on me called me and warned me 1 bead got loose and it lodged between the liver and stomach. It caused a radiation ulcer in my stomach that hurt really bad i couldn’t even drink water without severe pain . It was back to the feeding tube for a couple months. My UM team told me it was first time it happened just my luck!

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