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goldiebelle
goldiebelle Member Posts: 45
edited June 2014 in Radiation Therapy - Before, During, and After

Hi ladies

I am 21/33 treatments and I am pretty burnt. I had a bi mastectomy and the have been using the Bolice, I think I spelled it right.



My question is did any of you have to have changes made because of your X-rays? I get them every week and every week they have to make changes. The office call today aver my X-rays and told me to come in early because they have to make more changes to where I am being zapped. I am not really worried. I just have not heard anyone here talking about it. hope I am making sense.

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  • KittyDog
    KittyDog Member Posts: 1,079
    edited August 2011

    towards the end, they had to make one change on me.  They said they were getting to close to I think the lung.  They thought I had shifted in my shell too much trying to find a comfortable place to hold.  I had torn my rotator cuff three weeks into rads.  Hang in there it does get better very quick after it is over.  I burned horribly and my skin was all new and pink three weeks later.

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  • pejkug3
    pejkug3 Member Posts: 902
    edited August 2011

    I had to be changed a couple times towards the end.  I had films done several days in a row so they could be sure they were "hitting the spot they intended to hit".

    It was disconcerting but normal, I guess.  I was told that tissue changes during rads - that's why they do port films so frequently.

    I finished rads today - I believe my changes were right around the time where you are right now.

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  • goldiebelle
    goldiebelle Member Posts: 45
    edited August 2011

    Thanks ladies. Now I feel better.

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  • cfdr
    cfdr Member Posts: 549
    edited August 2011

    They do xrays every week on me, and redraw the marks. They said that people's bodies change all the time...you might gain or lose a couple of pounds, for instance, and that could shift things around. The tech said it's really difficult with patients who are getting radiation for the abdomen, because then you have to deal with how much food, gas, constipation, bladder, etc.

     I've also been doing more upper body exercise, in part because of a frozen shoulder on the opposite side, but also to prevent a frozen shoulder on the surgery/radiation side. So in my case I could see muscle changes could be in play, too. If you are doing more or less exercise because of your rotator cuff, I'd imagine that could also affect your chest anatomy.

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