Hi. I finished my 30 doses of radiotherapy on 5th April. Over the last few days I have been feeling really sick and actually being sick. The radio therapy was focused on my neck and upper shoulder area. I did have some sickness feelings during aswell. Is this something to be expected. thanks
Hi Dicko and welcome to the Online Community but I am sorry to hear about you being sick following your radiotherapy.
I had a total of 45 zaps over my treatments but had no sickness but it is often down to where the treatment is aimed at and what type of cancer you have.
It’s important to remember that the effects of radiotherapy keeps working for rather a long time…. you have basically been in a microwave and like food…… once it’s taken out the food has to sit. One set of 10 zaps I had kept working for over 16 months!!!
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Hello Dicko
I had external beam radiotherapy ( although to my pelvis) I had a lot of nausea during it and it did continue for some while after. My radiotherapist was able to prescribe something to help and also was able to give me dietary advice which did help. From what I was told at the time some people do experience nausea with radiotherapy and because the radiotherapy keeps working for a while after the treatment has ended sometimes the side effects can continue. I was told to expect any side effects to get worse for the first 2/3 weeks after treatment finished and then they would gradually settle. I am now nearly 7 months post radiotherapy and still get the odd day with a bit of nausea. Mine was mainly nausea although there were a couple of times I was actually sick.
Jane
