Strata xrt

Hello Michelle

From the posts I have read everybody buys Strata XRT cream. Some hospitals supply other creams, but I think Strata would be expensive for the NHS to supply.

You can buy the cream from their website.

I used it on day one of treatment and continued for some weeks after (the same tube), a little goes a long way.

Before treatment, I used perfume free baby cream to keep the area being treated well moisturised.

Hope everything goes well on Friday and you get a start date soon.

Ally

Thank you x

My consultant hadn’t heard of it, but gave me the OK to use it once she had reviewed the details

so be ready to show them the website with all the details on it. They won’t prescribe it - it’s too expensive. I ordered mine from the company directly. Not sure if I’m allowed to post the website but if you google you are looking for the website that starts gb.stratpharma

It arrived in a couple of days and I will start using it on Monday when my treatment starts. 

The waiting is horrid isn’t it. But things moved quickly once I’d seen the oncologist and I’m starting treatment 3 weeks after that appointment. I’m nervous but glad to get going with it. 

Sarah x

Thank you I found the web site but is so expensive isn’t it. 

It really is, but I’m lucky to be able to afford it and I’ll do anything that might make the next couple of months a little easier. 

Hi Michelle F6eb802 

The waiting is definitely the worst bit but once you get a treatment plan in place you will start to feel more in control. With regards to the strata XRT.  I personally didn't use it, but I did have a look on the website but it was to expensive so I used the creams provided by my hospital. Everyone on here who i have seen who has said they used it all bought it privately, I haven't seen anyone who got it prescribed. Good luck for Friday. Sending hugs. Xx

Hi Michelle,

Waiting to start treatment is such an anxious time and I think worse than starting. Good luck for Friday and hope you get a plan in place.

I didn’t know about Strata xrt when I started treatment so obviously didn’t use, but if I had known I would have invested in some given the good feedback from those that used it. I just used the small tube of cream that they gave me in week 4 (Flamigel RT) , sudocrem and paw-paw cream. It’s a shame it’s so expensive.  I haven’t heard of it being prescribed anywhere.

xx

Hi PEB24

Out of interest, did you find the Sudocrem helpful? I have been using Strata throughout my treatment and I am now 16 days post treatment. The most uncomfortable thing for me right now is obviously excruciating BMs and very sore skin around the outside of the anus (probably internally too but there's no cream to put inside anyway). The Strata doesn't seem to be doing anything to help heal that and I was wondering about Sudocrem. Did you find it helped heal the soreness at all?

Many thanks, Jo x

Hi Michelle,

Just wanted to say that although Strata is highly thought of and seems to be good, please don't worry if you can't afford it. I got through my treatment really well on just what I was given by radiotherapists, and healed up fine afterwards. We all respond differently, so you might find things are ok for you. 

So you do have the option to wait and see how you get on with the creams they give you, and only buy Strata if you really need it. 

x

Hi Jo

I didn’t use Strata but as a keen cyclist I’ve used Sudocrem for years and continued to use it during and just after treatment, now I have read in other posts that if you ask you’ll be advised not to use it during treatment so I only  applied it while going out cycling during treatment but did apply it all day for about a week after treatment while the skin quickly healed itself and I only applied it on top of any other creams or moisturisers I’d used.

Obliviously I don’t know if it helped as I can’t compare it to a period of not using it but I wasn’t particularly sore, didn’t need painkillers for my outer skin and healed very quickly once treatment had stopped, I was back to wiping with toilet paper about 10 days after treatment had finished. 

Monty xx