Side effects of gamma knife treatment
I had gamma knife treatment two months ago. During the past couple of weeks my balance has worsened to the point I cannot do my basic balance exercises. Does this mean the tumor is still growing, or am I having delayed side effects of the treatment?
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Opinions sre so spread out, here's mine for just the balance part. Take a day or two, relax and think about anything else but recovery. It takes time. Mine is so different week to week it can be scary. Depending on how you heal, you could be pushing to hard. I do all the time. This week paying the price. Gonna take weeks to get back what this downtime could have been. Anything related to the brain takes lots of time to heal. If you are still uncertain about it in a few days get with the doc and let him know how your doing. Wishing you good vibes with hugs and lucky blessings passed out to you 🙏 also.
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How are you feeling ? How many treatments did you have to have ? Are you in US? Are they using the Gamma Knife for a sacroma ? I am sorry you are going thru all of this . My husband is going to have the Gamma Knife in August because we have no other options to treat his chondrosacroma wrapped around cartoid artery . Please feel better 🙏🙏🙏
What was the Gamma Knife used to treat?
Hi How are you feeling ? What was your gamma knife treating ?
Thank you for your response.
Hello,
After my radiation and chemo treatments I had gamma knife treatment for a glioblastoma brain cancer. It is a one day treatment to figure out the best treatment areas and use the gamma knife to directly treat that area. It was a little painful but tolerable and takes a while to improve. After gamma, I went back on the chemo medicine on a 5-days per month for six months which I completed in early July. I had an MRI in July after completing the chemo which shows no real cancer growth so now I'm on a wait and see period. I will have another MRI in September to compare to the July reading and go from there. In the meantime, I have begun a 4 month program with Hormone Health Advantage to work on my diet and improve my nourishment and improve my body of toxins. Only time will tell how we proceed.