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Urinary issue after a year of no issues for 6 months
I was surprised after no issues for six months now I have to be careful at night is this unusual, also on another subject am I being too impatient that I feel nothing using Trimix or Bimix injections, want an implant so badly but without ability to have an orgasm, can’t take the gamble
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About five years after I had radiation, I started having incontinence problems. They’ve gotten worse little by little over time, now 7 years later I take Myrbetriq to help with urgency and incontinence.
After all this time, only caught me up a couple of times at night. Normally, I don’t have a problem when laying down.
It is not unusual to have these type of issues after having radiation.
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1 ReactionThis 2023 presentation out of Stanford University might provide you some ideas to discuss with your medical team —>
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4 ReactionsWhy does it manifest itself years down the road?
There appears to be some genetic predisposition for delayed symptoms from EBRT from months to years. Either or both SBRT & IMRT may cause these effects. A UCLA spinoff has developed a test that helps inform patients if they are at a higher at 15% versus 5%. It is called ProsTox. It is of no value to you now but I mention this only to answer the question posed why? See the video just mentioned and discuss the script that Jeff listed with the medical oncologist (MO)
According to Dr. Humberto Villarreal, A specialist in incontinence, The urethra gets hardened by radiation and prevents it from being squeezed by ProACT to control incontinence.
The same thing is true about the incontinence problems that occur over time with people that have had radiation.
Do a Google search using the below search. You will find numerous reasons that radiation causes incontinence.
“ can a hardening of the urethra from radiation cause incontinence issues”
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1 ReactionSorry, I get that radiation may have that affect but I'm suspicious that it first manifests itself 5 years after treatment and that it's attributable to radiation five years prior rather than something else.
Well, I did have a prostatectomy eight years before the problem started. The thing is, it is a well known issue that radiation causes the incontinence problem. I never had a problem after the surgery.
It also well known that radiation can cause issues many years after treatment. There’s an increase of other kinds of cancers, for example, due to the radiation That can occur 10 years after treatment.
"It has been known for decades that radiation therapy can treat cancer but can also raise the risk of developing another type of cancer years later. Now Stanford Medicine researchers have found that, for prostate cancer, the increased risk is negligible."
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/070/prostate-radiation-slightly-increases-the-risk-of-developing-ano.html