Treatment preparation

Hi Jezter Welcome to the forum, although I'm sorry about your husbands diagnosis. My essentials were water wipes as toilet roll can be harsh once you get into treatment, also I wore mens baggy boxers. Plenty of moisturiser and start that now to get the skin as good as possible. Personally I didn't have one but a lot of people on here used sitz baths. With regards as which products to use, I would check with his medical team as different hospitals seem to ok different things. I used E45 to wash with and moisturise but changed to aveeno moisturiser as found the E45 didn't cut it. Towards the end of treatment I had a lot of mucous and used night time sanitary towels and the hospital provided me with essentially nappies to get to from in. Sending hugs. X

Hi Jezter ,

Another warm welcome to the MacMillan Online Community although I’m so sorry to hear of your husband’s recent diagnosis. 

I suffered a bout of radiation cystitis quite early on in my treatment & was advised to wash with the QV cream provided by my radiology team & 8 years on I still only wash down there with aquamax cream as anything else sets off a reaction with my skin & it gets very irritated very quickly. I also used my own flannels & towels throughout my treatment. I also used water wipes instead of toilet paper throughout, these are readily available in the supermarket where the baby wipes are, if your husband is going to continue using toilet paper I’d try & get one with no perfume in it, I’m amazed how many toilet rolls are now perfumed, it’s another thing that sets off a skin reaction for me even now. I can’t think of anything else at the moment, I’m sure others will be along soon with some more ideas. 

Wishing your husband well with his treatment & remember we’re here to support you both however we can. 

Nicola