Radiotherapy side effects

All these side effects are unfortunately par for the course.  They are difficult and upsetting but they will pass. Talk to your care team  , they know stuff. Best Wishes. 

Hello Litterlatters 

Thank you for the update. Sadly your husband looks to have a very bad dose of the RT side effects.

As Sight for sore eyes said in the post above, they will get better given time. Make sure you keep in contact with your team as they can help with medication.

Best wishes - Brian.

I have had radiotherapy and did NOT get symptoms like this.

I have a good friend who went through the same process as your husband and he did.

For sometime it kept him at home. After a time it began to settle down, until the problem was only occurring in the afternoon. Eventually the problem became intermittent, and has now become occasional. That has been for a period slightly over 3 months after the RT

It seems to me that the probability of the symptoms receding over time is quite high. That means that a way of managing the problem is necessary.

Possibly the sort of journal needed to give a person insight into IBS might do something to work out a pattern and identify any trigger that sets it off. Here is a link to one such journal page from "Essentials of IBS".

https://www.essentialsofibs.com/content/dam/essentialsofibs/pdf/IBS-Patient-Diary.pdf

I am not recommending this directly, but as a place to start. You may be able to see if there are any improvements you can make while you wait.

I am hoping that this is allowed by the authorities, because my wife used something like this to understand her IBS.

I tried something similar to try and find what was setting off severe back pain a year ago. It was less successful because "breathing" was not a helpful thought.

Keep going, there will be a recovery. Patience is hard to learn when you are suffering.