r/endometrialcancer • u/Talesfromthescript11 • 10d ago

Radiation for pain?

My mom was recently diagnosed (she had spread to her lungs so I’m assuming they’re going to stage it as 4b but they have yet to tell her) and had her first chemo session 3 days ago. She’s been in so much pain for almost a year and started hemorrhaging a few days ago. They weren’t going to do radiation but with the pain and blood loss they are going ahead with it. She has a small lesion on her pelvic bone and a large tumor in her uterus. Has anyone had decreased pain with radiation and how long did it take to see effects? I just want her to not be in pain anymore 😔

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u/sanityjanity 10d ago

My case is less extreme than your mother's, but I can tell you that radiation didn't hurt me at all. There's not even any needle poking. You just lie down, and let a machine move around you for a few minutes, and then you go home.

It made me tired. It made me nauseated for the first week (meds helped). But it never hurt.

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u/Talesfromthescript11 10d ago

Did the radiation help? I’m hoping that it can help her pain along with shrinking the cancer

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u/sanityjanity 10d ago

In my case, my cancer had not escaped my uterus, as far as we could tell. I did radiation and chemo to make absolutely positively certain that no stray cancer cells were hanging around, but I didn't shrink a known tumor.

Best of luck for your mom.