Hi guys. Well 2nd day today. Yesterday was a tough day, so tired and felt really quite overwhelmed. Had chemo via iv and radiotherapy. Today just radiotherapy taking chemo via tablets.
What I want to know is I was given some gel to use with the radiotherapy and I'm not sure how to use it. Do I use it from now or wait till my skin reacts.
Also while I'm here my daughter asked.. does the radiotherapy shrink the tumour or just kill it? Xx
Hi Abigail ,
Yes definitely, I was just told no creams prior to radiotherapy. Most of my sessions were between 2pm & 3pm so I would have a shower at lunchtime & not put any cream on afterwards, I would take the cream with me then as soon as I’d had my radiotherapy before I got dressed again in the changing rooms I’d lather it on. Also on advice from one of the radiology girls following a bout of radiation cystitis I only washed with aqueous cream, I continued this throughout treatment & only use this still as anything else leaves the affected skin a little irritated.
Nicola
