Hello, after my wife's 26th radiation treatment ten days ago, her treatment was put on hold because of burns to her neck. The 26th treatment was the first time they removed the "bowlus" around the neck, my understanding is the bowlus pulls the radiation effect closer to the surface of the skin. That day her skin still just mostly looked a deep red with maybe a little bit of oozing and a bit of "alligator skin" look. When the RO saw her after treatment, she immediately said that we would need to put a hold on further treatment to give the neck time to heal. We started out just using Aquafor, a hydrocort cream and a benedryl gel but within two days her skin had pretty well broken down with bleeding, oozing and almost like her scar were trying to open up including her trache stoma. For the last week we have been using silver sulfadiazine on the worst area and Aquafor on the area around it. Today they gave us a morphine cream that could be applied to the top of the other creams to help with pain. Couple of questions, have may others experienced this skin breakdown, used these creams and how long did it take to heal? Has anyone experienced nausea from a morphine cream? She had a very difficult time catching her breath after throwing up to the point where we were almost headed to the ER and the Oncologist on-call suggested she go in to get looked over and get a chest x-ray. I didn't ask at the time but about the only reason I could think of that she would need a chest x-ray would be if something maybe got down her lungs when throwing up?

Anyway just looking for others experiences.

Thanks,