Recovery time following Linac, GK or CK

[NE Farmwife]

I had my CK treatments on January 14, 15 and 16 at Stanford.  I really can't tell that I had anything done and I went back to work the following Tuesday (Monday was MLK day so I didn't have to work).  I am not any more tired than I would be on any other normal work day.  I only work part time (4 hours a day) so maybe that is a factor but I have't gone home and been exhausted either. I painted my bedroom the week before we left and I painted the bathroom last week (the week after we got back).  I didn't have headaches or balance problems before CK and I haven't had any problems with that since then either. I really don't feel any different.  If I hadn't been told that I had an AN, I wouldn't know that I had one.  My biggest problem is that my face is numb, I lack taste on the AN side and since my diagnosis, I have tinnitus.  Dr. Chang told me that whatever symptoms I had going in to CK, wiould probably be permanent and if there is inflammation on down the line, it would probably be those same symptoms that I currently have that would increase in intensity. 

[carter]

i had reported only some tiredness during and after the ck.  i am now 2 weeks after the treatments.  i missed two partial days during treatment and took the day after just to rest.  now i have some days that i feel very good - about 2/3 of time.  the other 1/3 - i do get tired.  my wife has given me a lot of couch time!  i work on average 10 hours per day and have raveled to teh west coast for business for 3 days after CK.

i had some headaches going in - the frequency is down.  in th epast 3 months before - 1 bad one ....   but i did have one really bad one after ck.  one day only - thank goodness. 

i had a little balance issue going in and it is about the same.

hearing and ringing - no discernable difference.

when i went to west coast, i took wife along to help in case that i did not feel well ---- this was not needed, infact we went sight seeing in the evenings.

all in all - i can only point to the tiredness as an issue --- but this is not enough to affect work - just waht i do in the evenings.


carter

[Sue]

Larry, so happy you've made your decision.  If I had a choice, I'd probably choose fractionated now.  There was only the GK machine here when I had my AN nuked, so that's what I went with.  Actually, I think because I didn't sleep much for that first week is what bothered me the most.  The steroids kept me awake so I was pretty miserable.  It took me 3 weeks to feel "normal". 

Sue in Vancouver USA