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Radiation Proctitis treatment.

User
Posted 01 Jan 2025 at 20:42

I finished my treatment in September 2023 but following recent bleeding from my bottom, have been diagnosed with radiation proctitis. Anyone else had this and the treatment for it? 

User
Posted 02 Jan 2025 at 16:06

Yes.  Make sure you contact the Pelvic Radiation Disease Association.  They gave me the details of a doctor who specialised in this at a hospital about an hour's drive from my home.  My cancer hospital referred me there.

I was given a SEHCAT scan to check bile salt reabsorption and a colonoscopy.  

In the end, I opted for treatment to help control my bowel movements....I was basically bowel incontinent at that time.

 

User
Posted 02 Jan 2025 at 16:07

Whereabouts in the country are you?

User
Posted 03 Jan 2025 at 08:54

Yeah thank you for that. I’ve to have a colonoscopy too, just to confirm diagnosis and then possible laser treatment . Many thanks.

User
Posted 03 Jan 2025 at 08:54

Glasgow.

 
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