Apparently this just isn't that uncommon in radiated patients. The really extreme gas and bloating after the surgery was a real surprise and definately unpleasant. I swallowed enough Gas-X pills to fill up a dump trunk in the first three weeks. Liquid diet for the first 3-4 weeks felt like the old days right after cancer treatment, and I lost some weight, but pretty much back to my normal post cancer diet now. It definatly has helped me, but perhaps not to the helpful extent that you sound like. I would still do it again, and am told that as I get further out from my surgery date things will continue to improve....

I hope you don't follow in all my issues, I don't like to whine, but there have been plenty of others that make life difficult that I haven't mentioned. I won't bore you with the details...or get people started watching for things that may never enter their lives