 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | It takes a while because after the injection you have to wait 20 minutes (or was it longer?) and you have to be lying down and not moving while you wait (which is why it seems like longer). If you are needle phobic (I am), you learn really quickly in the cancer battle to NOT LOOK AT the needles.
I was having pretty bad mouth pain still when they did my PET and I took an extra dose of painkiller before we started. I ended up dozing through much of it, though it was a little wierd because the whole thing was done in the interior of a truck trailer that was attached to the hospital and it was pretty tight quarters......
Nelie
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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