RT SE..?

Okay, I'm around 2/3 done with RT.
Soon after eating I get a real good stomach ache down low, Anyone else have this....?

No...maybe you should alter your diet.

My stools looked funny toward the end of my treatment, but I felt fine. It's worth asking your RO about.

Several months after my RT ended I began getting serious intestinal side effects. Frequent, explosive bowel movements, 'radiation craps', (lots of pain and effort for very small results) low gut pain and cramping. Then my hemorrhoids began bleeding much more than they had previously. Lots of blood. Radiation colitis and proctitus.

These SE's steadily increased for about 3 years, then they got very intense for a couple of months - the "side effect nadir". After that they began to calm down.

I still hit the toilet about 6 times from when I get up at 4:15 AM until I go out the door for my daily 7 miles at 8 AM. Still loose and explosive, but not as painful. Rectal bleeding has backed off, as has much of the pain and cramping, though I still have both. Still get the 'radiation craps' as well. 'Tinesmus' (feeling like you have to crap but don't) is part of my daily life now. Still get that "sudden intense need to urinate" and burning on urination also, despite I have been continent since 3 months after surgery. Doc says I have some radiation caused nerve damage.

I have quit eating onions, garlic, hot peppers (that really hurts), spicy food in general and avoid saturated fats. A relatively bland diet and a rigid schedule seem to be helping quite a lot.

I, too, was warned about the possible SE's of prostatectomy, but there was minimal mention about SE's from SRT, unless I reminded Docs I had ulcerative colitis. In general, it seems that surgery SE's are better understood and usually manageable right away. With RT of any type, the SE's seem far less initially obvious, and have a horizon of decades. We just don't know what we don't know.

My explosive bowel symptoms started about 3 months after RT ended. Frequent explosive mucous discharges and many false starts = tenesmus, lots of gas with attempted bowel movements. No blood, tenderness without 'pain', often 10 second urgency....you don't want to be between me and the bathroom. Modifications and minor changes to my diet haven't seemed to help since I've always been on a bland diet due to my ulcerative colitis. Surprisingly, forcing myself to drink more water does seem to help. Gastroenterologist, who know more about radiation proctitis than most RO's, has me on special formulation, sucralfate 500mg suppositories, once a day, at night, which seems to have leveled off my symptoms, and I take high quality probiotics, morning and night. I've had no serious urinary issues. For Valentine's Day, I'm getting a colonoscopy.

Living with radiation proctitis/colitis for 2 or 3 years would be real downer. I hope those rumors are incorrect. It seriously impacts quality of life, like the ability to travel, even short distances.. I'll keep you guys informed.

....and so it goes.

I’m 5 weeks out of finishing RT. No issues. But this thread is making me nervous.

I didn`t have any real stomach problems ....pretty lucky all around ....now after 2 years Im waiting on the SE`s that are supposed to start , but so far I seem to be getting better in the area of ED and orgasms....hope this trend keeps up....Good luck MG ...wishes for the New Years !!....David

What's up with this two year mark and why is it two years?
Here are my se's in regards to 25 sessions of ebrt and ldr Brachy...
I cant eat eggs any longer, go figure. If I eat eggs, one hour later I feel nauseous. I have no other issue with any other food, and have no idea why I cant stomach eggs any longer.
My stomach at times makes noises it has never made before ebrt. This concerns me, especially with this two year thing. This only happens once in a awhile, but man is it noisy at times.
Peeing is not strong any longer as the LDR brachy is still cooking the crap out of my Prostate. It does not hurt, I can still pee, sometimes more urgent, but flow has diminished. I have not taken any meds for this, have not needed to.
Sex.. Its weird that we talk about this, but wth. Sex has not been an issue at all, but I will say this, I seem to be drying up some. I have less than 4 months before most of the iodine seeds stop pumping out radiation, so only time will tell what will happen after that.
I'm still wondering what's in store at 2 years. UGH!

I have tried every form of egg except raw. Over easy, sunnyside up, soft and hard boiled, scrambled. Same thing every time, so I gave them up. I didn't eat eggs all that much before, it's just weird, oh well.

The egg thing is very weird indeed. I would be so curious as to the mechanism that causes this.

I’ve had no egg issues, I love eggs, I eat them daily, sometimes twice a day, mostly whites but once a week whole eggs. Scrambled, boiled, omelette, whatever