(Sep 21, 2017 04:37 PM)C C Wrote: Maybe easier going early on, if the brunt of the side effects don't start kicking in for two or three weeks into treatment. I guess our "best wishes" should actually apply more to the long haul than the treatment phase itself, if "PSA results often vacillate up and down during the first 3 years after therapy; this does not mean treatment failed". Still, hope the discomforts aren't that bad as they gradually emerge (as well any dietary and other deprivations).
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Just got home. First treatment went well. as for eventual side effects, it's different for everyone but is many cases there are few or next to none, a reason to be optimistic. Can't worry about it, realistically it's all about survival for me.
Simple procedure....lay on my back, arms folded across my chest, trousers and underwear pulled down past my rear end with privates barely covered. A machine with 4 arms, each with some kind of instrument attached. The arms rotate to 8 different positions, each time emitting 6-8 beeps of differing lengths. I counted since there was nothing else to do. They play music and I sat through half of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, half of a Meatloaf tune that I can't remember the title of and the full version of Raspberry Beret. Prince was never one of my favorites so I guess that was the worst part. . About 8 minutes in all. I feel a little phantom something at my 3 tattoo marks but that's it. I imagine that might change as we go on. Only 19 more sessions to go. Cheers