Any October 2012 rads girls out there?

Had my 7th today and instead of me walking over to get started the nurse hijacked me and told me the Dr wanted to see me.  I told her it wasn't necessary, you already told me it's not a SE so please just let me get on with my treatment so i can go home and go to bed.  The Dr came in and wanted my weight, i lost 4.5 lbs since Monday.  She asked if i had been eating?  Ummmm no!  I've told you all since Wednesday i've been nauseated with vomiting so no, i haven't been eating.  They asked if i wanted hydration?  I said no but they told me if i lost more weight on Monday i'd have to have it.  I'm ok with having it, as long as they put some anti nausea meds in there as well.  She also told me it can be a SE but "typically" it's not.  So, now we've gone from an absolute NO, to "typically"?  

Sorry for the others who are experiencing this SE!  Ames, Bunkie and njprn...     

7 down and 26 to go.  

Wishing everyone a great weekend!  

wow, i got the same thing.  they still say i have a bug.  pffft.   hope you feel better Bunkie!  

I started radiation on October 1, 2012, Scheduled for 7 weeks. Breast, underarm and below underarm is red, sore and warm. The strange thing that I didn't expect is both of my jawlines and the sides of my tongue red, sore and inflamed.

Tammy - How are you feeling? Nausea any better?

Amawmaw - My jaw has been sore too but I just thought it was the weather. Hope that gets better for you. I also have a few little mouth sores.

I was really tired this morning after 10 hours sleep so I forced myself to go to the store for fruit. I have a friend coming to the MSU game today and will stop by afterwards. She is a fruit lover. Wish I could eat it more. No nausea today yet but my throat is still raspy. No fever so hope it is just the rads.

I started my radiation on Oct 1 also.  Only had 4 treatments that week...equipment problem. So today was #10.   I celebrated my 63rd birthday by having a treatment last week.  I had a mastectomy in April and finished chemo at the end of August.  I have healed well.  I have some very mild lymph edema.  My RO has suggested the possibilty of fatigue, skin redness and increased edema.  So far I have had no problems.  He predicted the possible fatigue by the end of this week.  My friend told me she jumped off the table at the end of the third week and thought she would not be able to stand, it hit so quickly.  My employer (the hospital where I am having the radiation) has been great to let me work hours that I can stand, but not my regular job.  Tomorrow I will be doing my "real job" for four hours and then getting my treatment.  We will see if the fatigue hits.  I cannot imagine that the radiation can make me feel as bad as chemo.  I lost 30 lbs, passed out in my bathroom and landed on my nose, had to have a transfusion and got IV fluids at home several times.  I hope I am not proved wrong on the radiation effects.   I am still waiting on some hair on my head and just last week, my eyebrows and eyelashes are leaving me so I am not without stress.  It is good to have a place to read experiences and ask questions.

I do not expect to breeze right through it.  I am sure there will be some problems.  I am now 1/3 through as of today. Right now I am so obsessed with hair....that there is none on my head and that brows and lashes are coming out.  I am tired but nothing so dramatic as some of you have described.  If it happens, I won't panic because I understand.  That is a huge help/

Morning ladies. Treatment 12 day for me too. So far so good. No SE's and my dr. is thrilled with my skin. Keep the faith and have a great day with minimal or no SE's. 😜

Sorry to hear that Bunkie. Could just be stress from all this, it would be totally understandable if it were.

I can't believe I'll have 15 treatments done after tomorrow. I hate having to do this, but I'm grateful to be almost halfway done. No SEs as of yet really.

Bunkie, when my chemo was over instead of being thrilled, I kind of went into a depression.  Not sure exactly why but later found out this is very common in cancer patients.  I am now on Effexor, which helps with the crying spells as well as the hot flashes.  I am not one who likes to take medicine but once I realized I needed some help to get through this, I accepted it and it has worked wonders for me.  I know I won't be on it forever, but right now it's nice to not be completely depressed every day and worrying constantly about the cancer. 

Hope that helps. 

I finally heard back from my RO today.  I will finally get to start tx on Tuesday.  It has been 8 weeks since I finished chemo and I am getting really antsy that I haven't had anything since then. 

My primary care physician put me on Effexor the day she told me the diagnosis.  It has been a huge help.  My husband and Effexor got me through some of the rougher times of chemo when I thought I could not stand another dose.

Officially over halfway done!!! Hooray!!!

Breast area where I am getting rads is a little sore. Wearing my mastectomy prosthetic bra is uncomfortable so I am not wearing it this weekend, which is disappointing. I think I'm going to have to switch back to my post-surgery camisole. I've been more tired than normal too this week but I wonder if it's not more from the driving back and forth than the actual radiation.

Those of us who started early in the month are so close to being done! This coming week is my last full week of rads. I think Wednesday is my last day of normal rads and then after that I do 5 boost treatments to the scar area. Woo hoo!!! Still no fatigue. My skin definitely looks sunburned but (at least so far) it's not as bad as I feared. Just a little sore and occasionally itchy. Not peeling or anything like that. Cannot wait to be done!

How about sending in lunch from a local restaurant?

Got my first "boost" treatment today and four more next week.  I am tired nothing dramatic just tired.  I do have some impressive burns.  The cortisone cream and Aquaphor help.  Vaseline gauze really helps with the itching.  There are two spots that have been bad enough to start peeling.