Hi,
I had one fitted around this time last year, around three weeks before starting radiotherapy. It's a very similar to how the biopsy felt. Local anesthetic, ultra sound in back passage, needle in perineum.
It was over a lot quicker than the biopsy and I went back to work afterwards. Obviously not the most pleasant experience but I didn't mind it too much, plus anything to reduce damage to surrounding tissue sounded good to me!
I'm just under a year on from EBRT/Brachytherapy and bowels feel pretty much normal, no urgency, no issues to speak of. I did have some side effects during, nothing major. Things felt looser and there is a clear mucus that you get caused by irritation to the bowel. This cleared up a couple of months after with the odd slight re-occurrence. Nothing recently though
How much difference the spacer made I'll never know for sure, but very happy I took them up on the offer.
All the best
John
P.S. I'm sure they said it reduces exposure to radiation by around 70% or something like that
Edited by member 18 Nov 2025 at 10:09
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