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Dry eyes and burning smell during treatments

ac
ac CSN Member Posts: 88 Member
edited October 2011 in Head and Neck Cancer #1
Hi,

I finished the second week of rads and I'm getting really dry eyes on one side. Did anyone experience this?

I could also swear that I smell something burning every time I start my radiation treatments. It does go away halfway through though. I'm wondering if my mind is playing tricks on me.

Thank you.
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  • Hondo
    Hondo CSN Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #2
    Hi ac

    Smell is normal in the radiation machine no one knows why; I was told it was the iron in the blood as it passed through the rad beam in the nasal area, who knows. Ask your doctor what you can use for the dry eyes just another little side affect.

    Wishing you well
    Hondo
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  • Cathelen72
    Cathelen72 CSN Member Posts: 33 Member
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    Dry eyes
    My left eye is still very dry from the rads and I am two months out. I had stringers rads on my left as this was where all my tumors grew. My vision has also changed. It's an annoying side effect for sure. Dry eye drops help to bring moisture back.
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  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 CSN Member Posts: 8,305 Member
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    Smell
    I used to smell Ozone, it has a very distinctive odor if you've ever smelled it before. I only smelled it for the first few minutes of the rads sessions.

    JG
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  • ggpierce
    ggpierce CSN Member Posts: 30
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    I used to smell something
    I used to smell something too, the first round of rads I had 22 years ago, the last time I didn't. One thing I have wondered about for years is, during one of my treatments 22 yrs ago, a fly was flying around above me and landed on my chest just before the "click", he stayed there during the whole shot, then flew away. I've wondered since then if there is a 20# fly buzzing around Memphis somewhere.
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  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 CSN Member Posts: 8,305 Member
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    ggpierce said:

    I used to smell something
    I used to smell something too, the first round of rads I had 22 years ago, the last time I didn't. One thing I have wondered about for years is, during one of my treatments 22 yrs ago, a fly was flying around above me and landed on my chest just before the "click", he stayed there during the whole shot, then flew away. I've wondered since then if there is a 20# fly buzzing around Memphis somewhere.

    Millington...
    Maybe he landed at NAS Millington..., LOL.

    Sorry, I spend several weeks there around the last few months of 1973 and the first few months of 1974.

    I just looked it up and guess the base that I knew closed around 1993.

    JG
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  • Hondo
    Hondo CSN Member Posts: 6,636 Member
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    ggpierce said:

    I used to smell something
    I used to smell something too, the first round of rads I had 22 years ago, the last time I didn't. One thing I have wondered about for years is, during one of my treatments 22 yrs ago, a fly was flying around above me and landed on my chest just before the "click", he stayed there during the whole shot, then flew away. I've wondered since then if there is a 20# fly buzzing around Memphis somewhere.

    The Fly

    May be the movie The Fly was not a movie at all, possible the radiation turned him into a superfly. Ha ha ha

    Just had to have the joke :+))
    Hondo
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