Hi Pebble67, 

Poor you, this sounds awful and it must be very comfortable for you and it must be really frustrating that you can't find any identifiable trigger. I hope that you will hear from others here who have had similar side effects after pelvic radiotherapy. I know you had treatment 19 years ago now but it might be worth if you haven't done so already bringing this up with your GP and explaining your issues in detail. I hope that they will be able to prescribe something to help ease these symptoms and also that they will identify what the cause of this might be, if it is linked to your pelvic radiotherapy treatment and what the triggers might be, if there is a way of identifying these triggers if there are some.

You are also welcome to talk to one of our cancer nurses about this by ringing them on this free helpline 0808 800 4040 - their line is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.

Best wishes, 

Lucie, Cancer Chat Moderator

Hi Pebble67, 

Poor you, this sounds awful and it must be very comfortable for you and it must be really frustrating that you can't find any identifiable trigger. I hope that you will hear from others here who have had similar side effects after pelvic radiotherapy. I know you had treatment 19 years ago now but it might be worth if you haven't done so already bringing this up with your GP and explaining your issues in detail. I hope that they will be able to prescribe something to help ease these symptoms and also that they will identify what the cause of this might be, if it is linked to your pelvic radiotherapy treatment and what the triggers might be, if there is a way of identifying these triggers if there are some.

You are also welcome to talk to one of our cancer nurses about this by ringing them on this free helpline 0808 800 4040 - their line is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.

Best wishes, 

Lucie, Cancer Chat Moderator