☺RADIATION TREATMENT ☼☼☼ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS☻ PART TWO

Megan M said:

This is the part two to the
This is the part two to the other post. It took me forever to find it, but, it has a lot of info too.

Megan

Glad to find this, part 2. I
Glad to find this, part 2. I will need all this after I have my masectomy soon. Thanks again for sharing.

peacefulheart said:

Vitamins During Rads

I am curious as to why you were told not to take vitamins during radiation. I am taking Femara during my rads and my oncologist told me to take a multi vitamin and extra calcium tabs. Interesting.

Cathy

My rads oncologist told me
My rads oncologist told me to not take any vitamins during my radiation treatments. The reasoning behind it is you don't want your good or any stray cancer cells to get nourishment and get stronger. You want them weak, especially any stray cancer cells that might be left. I hope that explains it. But, this was just for me. Others need to do what their oncologist's or rads oncologist say.

Megan

Sodonewiththis said:

Simulation & photo shoot

Hi all,I'm pretty terrified ! I had my lumpectomy on 9/2/15,did simulation for Rads on 9/14/15 to start on 9/28. I get the little jail house tatts,but I don't understand the digital photos. It was bad enough laying there all exposed, with him taking pictures on each side of me-but hanging over me to snap that photo! It's really too much! Now my face is visible while laying there with my breast exposed is that photo! It truly made me feel so violated. Am I the only one that felt this way?I hope I am not offending anyone Case you can't tell ,no clue what I am doing. Thanks for letting me get that out.

new thread

You responded to a thread that's 5 years old, you might get better response if you start your own.

I had rads too, and remember feeling very exposed on that table. Didn't have the digital photos, and I think it helped that 2 gals were working with me.

GlowMore said:

Hi Sodone....

Sure you see by now that this thread is 5 years old....but thought I would let you know that you were certainly not the only person who felt terribly violated during that procedure.  I remember I was told I could not leave my wig on (had to do chemo first then the radiation) and anyway I felt bad enough and cold too without the wig....but then to lay there on that cold table and have 3 or 4 nurses and a doctor or two running all around me and drawing pictures on me and talking to each other as if I were not there....I felt SO EXPOSED...AND I will have to say that was one of the worst experiences of the whole thing for me....it was like I was not a Human Being ......but simply a "Thing".  I lay there while they worked and tears rolled down my cheeks and they did not even notice ..... it was very dehumanizing for sure .... THANK GOD FOR THEIR GOOD WORK HOWEVER BECAUSE THAT WAS THIRTEEN YEARS AGO AND I AM STILL HERE.   Big Smile...   Hang in There...take it as it comes...we all send you encouragement and hugs and prayers for Strength & Courage.    Glo

OH & also

a big HUG 

GlowMore said:

Hi Sodone....

Sure you see by now that this thread is 5 years old....but thought I would let you know that you were certainly not the only person who felt terribly violated during that procedure.  I remember I was told I could not leave my wig on (had to do chemo first then the radiation) and anyway I felt bad enough and cold too without the wig....but then to lay there on that cold table and have 3 or 4 nurses and a doctor or two running all around me and drawing pictures on me and talking to each other as if I were not there....I felt SO EXPOSED...AND I will have to say that was one of the worst experiences of the whole thing for me....it was like I was not a Human Being ......but simply a "Thing".  I lay there while they worked and tears rolled down my cheeks and they did not even notice ..... it was very dehumanizing for sure .... THANK GOD FOR THEIR GOOD WORK HOWEVER BECAUSE THAT WAS THIRTEEN YEARS AGO AND I AM STILL HERE.   Big Smile...   Hang in There...take it as it comes...we all send you encouragement and hugs and prayers for Strength & Courage.    Glo

Getting rad treatment n hormones

Just wanted to say I read all the stuff from five years ago to. I 

Am having a re-excision for DCIS after invasive cancer and a lumpectomy. I was going to have a mastectomy but my brother who is a doctor talked me into radiation and hormone therapy. Learned a lot from reading all these posts. Don't like the photo shoot sounds degrading. Hope it doesn't comer to that for me.

GlowMore said:

Hi Sodone....

Sure you see by now that this thread is 5 years old....but thought I would let you know that you were certainly not the only person who felt terribly violated during that procedure.  I remember I was told I could not leave my wig on (had to do chemo first then the radiation) and anyway I felt bad enough and cold too without the wig....but then to lay there on that cold table and have 3 or 4 nurses and a doctor or two running all around me and drawing pictures on me and talking to each other as if I were not there....I felt SO EXPOSED...AND I will have to say that was one of the worst experiences of the whole thing for me....it was like I was not a Human Being ......but simply a "Thing".  I lay there while they worked and tears rolled down my cheeks and they did not even notice ..... it was very dehumanizing for sure .... THANK GOD FOR THEIR GOOD WORK HOWEVER BECAUSE THAT WAS THIRTEEN YEARS AGO AND I AM STILL HERE.   Big Smile...   Hang in There...take it as it comes...we all send you encouragement and hugs and prayers for Strength & Courage.    Glo

Thank you for your kind

Thank you for your kind words. 

Patty