Radiotherapy for Throat Cancer

Hello all,

I have posted my little story on introduce yourself and basically I have been diagnosed with Stage 1 Throat cancer.

The prognosis is hopeful and I remain cheerful and positive. Its taken a while for the actual treatment to start so glad to get on with it at last.

I started my first day of radiotherpy today and have 29 more treatments to go over 6 week period.
I have made a little computer programme that logs my side effects and summarises episodes of each heading and I plan on keeping a daily log of how things went/ how I feel ( good and bad ) and map out my journey. I find it therapuetic.

I will share periodically in the hope that even if it helps one person as well as myself  it will be worthwhile.

So day 1 was fine and I dont really feel any difference or notice anything.
One small point is that the mask made was slightly harder than when it was first made as it has set little harder over the weeks and was a little more moveable on the day made.
Took about 10 mins for actual radiotherpay treatment itself.
Drove home fine.

Meet with advanced practioner nurse every Thurs to discuss progress.
Aware might be a little different along the way but all good after day 1.

 

kind regards

Ian

 

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  • Hi Laura

    The pain really is difficult to manage however if you get the right dressing it can really help with that too. I can see why they gave you flamazine ( Sulfadiazine) but hopefully they gave you some dressings such as allevyn to cover it as this really helps with the pain. Hopefully the burns will heal quickly for him and like others gave said please see if you can increase his pain relief to help. Congratulations again on completing the treatment and good luck.

    best wishes 

    Emma

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  • Hi Laura

    The pain really is difficult to manage however if you get the right dressing it can really help with that too. I can see why they gave you flamazine ( Sulfadiazine) but hopefully they gave you some dressings such as allevyn to cover it as this really helps with the pain. Hopefully the burns will heal quickly for him and like others gave said please see if you can increase his pain relief to help. Congratulations again on completing the treatment and good luck.

    best wishes 

    Emma

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