Hello Leah
Was wondering how your treatment is going??
Is your body namely the gut, coping ok?.
Think of you often and hope you are ok
Healing hugs
Xo
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Dalai Lama
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
Hi Wonderful ladies. I try not to complain or make things about me very often, but thanks for thinking of me.
The radiation treatments are going well. my breast is starting to hurt a bit, but nothing I can't take. I'm more worried about how I will feel after I start taking Tamoxifen!
It's funny you should ask about my gut because I was just about to ask Tex if it's possible that the treatments could be giving me issues. I started to have issues last Monday and haven't been able to rein it in. Don't get me wrong… I'm not running to the bathroom multiple times a day, but more gas and D has returned. Going back to just meat is a depressing thought, so I haven't done it yet, but I have been careful with what I eat and I am still having issues. Could it be the stress to my body?
Leah
The radiation treatments are going well. my breast is starting to hurt a bit, but nothing I can't take. I'm more worried about how I will feel after I start taking Tamoxifen!
It's funny you should ask about my gut because I was just about to ask Tex if it's possible that the treatments could be giving me issues. I started to have issues last Monday and haven't been able to rein it in. Don't get me wrong… I'm not running to the bathroom multiple times a day, but more gas and D has returned. Going back to just meat is a depressing thought, so I haven't done it yet, but I have been careful with what I eat and I am still having issues. Could it be the stress to my body?
Leah
Hi Leah,
I have no idea how your radiation treatments are being directed/focused/controlled, but I would hope that non-target areas (such as your abdominal cavity) are being shielded, because radiation enteritis is a well-known problem when radiation is directed at any part of the digestive system. Normally though, symptoms of radiation enteritis don't show up until roughly 6 months or more after radiation treatment, so this is probably not the cause of your current symptoms.
That leads me to believe that your symptoms are not due to inadvertent radiation damage to your intestines, but rather they're being caused (as you suspect) by the added stress on your body, and by the fact that radiation activates mast cells and and their response adds to the primary inflammatory response caused by the radiation process itself. Of course this should be strictly a local effect on the targeted area, but as we have learned, mast call activation virtually anywhere in the body can adversely affect the digestive system.
How much longer do you have to take the treatments?
Tex
I have no idea how your radiation treatments are being directed/focused/controlled, but I would hope that non-target areas (such as your abdominal cavity) are being shielded, because radiation enteritis is a well-known problem when radiation is directed at any part of the digestive system. Normally though, symptoms of radiation enteritis don't show up until roughly 6 months or more after radiation treatment, so this is probably not the cause of your current symptoms.
That leads me to believe that your symptoms are not due to inadvertent radiation damage to your intestines, but rather they're being caused (as you suspect) by the added stress on your body, and by the fact that radiation activates mast cells and and their response adds to the primary inflammatory response caused by the radiation process itself. Of course this should be strictly a local effect on the targeted area, but as we have learned, mast call activation virtually anywhere in the body can adversely affect the digestive system.
How much longer do you have to take the treatments?
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I am done next Thursday, so I have 7 more treatments. … all directed on the one breast. It's pretty high tech, so they don't need to cover the rest of my body.
I suspect that it is just stress on my body and hopefully once the cells normalize, things will get better for my gut.
Thanks for chiming in Tex :)
I suspect that it is just stress on my body and hopefully once the cells normalize, things will get better for my gut.
Thanks for chiming in Tex :)
That's good news that the treatments will soon be finished. With any luck at all, the symptoms should settle down soon after they're completed.
You're most welcome.
Tex
You're most welcome.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Leah, think of you often when I get on my exercise equip. Glad to hear you are tolerating your treatments and hope the future treatments continue to to be friendly to your MC. Hugs
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Diverticulosis/ MC DX Feb.2014
I am thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn't have stumbled across my strength.
What are you willing to let go of so you can live the life you know you deserve?
Leah,
I heard on the news yesterday about a new topical gel form of tamoxifen that has been tested. It avoids the GI tract, has fewer side effects, and apparently is just as effective as the standard treatment. You might want to ask about it if you haven't already considered it. (I don't know if it's readily available yet).
Great news that the radiation is almost over. Good luck!!!
Love,
Polly
I heard on the news yesterday about a new topical gel form of tamoxifen that has been tested. It avoids the GI tract, has fewer side effects, and apparently is just as effective as the standard treatment. You might want to ask about it if you haven't already considered it. (I don't know if it's readily available yet).
Great news that the radiation is almost over. Good luck!!!
Love,
Polly
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