Radiotherapy

Your husband has been lucky not to have bad side effects from his treatment so far but the effects of radiotherapy can ramp up for a while after treatment is finished. Has your husband been prescribed stronger pain meds over the course of his treatment? If so now is the time to start using them regularly. Most of us need stronger pain killers over the course of our radiotherapy treatment but they need to be taken by the clock to help with the pain. Include paracetamol in the regime as this helps a lot too. If your husband does not have anything stronger than ibuprofen then he needs an urgent appointment with  his radiotherapy doctor to discuss.

Lyn

I had slow release morphine, Oramorph and Difflam., needed the stuff for many weeks..

Speak to your team about upping pain relief medication.

Hi dub, the RT does continue to work for a couple of weeks after the last session. Like the others have said, he needs stronger painkillers you need to get in touch with his team so they can give him some. Good luck to him with his recovery, take care of him and yourself.

Ray.

Hi yes the treatment continues tj work. I was in 30 mg co codomol with oramorph in between up to 3 month period. Maybe contact his cms although you should have been made aware. Please do today as the pain will continue for a while make sure he’s hydrated and having food if he has a tube use that for meds. 
if he hasn’t a tube he may need a ng tube  fitting. 

Keep in touch

Hazel 

Definitely recommend paracetamol- a very underrated painkiller. Most of us get worse pain in the two weeks after Radiotherapy. As others have said, take pain meds regularly without fail, I was on paracetamol and Oramorph which helped enormously. Good luck to him, when the two weeks post treatment are over things will slowly start to get easier.

Bridget