Radiation Proctitis Tip

[mistersafety]

Have had occasional rectal bleeding with bowel movements that recently increased in frequency and extent to every time. Since I had radiation back in 2019, I suspected late onset radiation proctitis. A week ago this problem suddenly ceased and has not returned.

The thing I did was eat a couple of teaspoons of umeboshi paste. Also known as Japanese pickled plums, this product is available at many grocery stores and has no known unwanted side effects.

I freely admit this may be an example of the logical fallacy: post hoc ergo procto hope.

Best to everyone!

--Mr Safety

[pjoshea13]

We tend to think of Japanese men as being fortunate. They have had a low rate of PCa historically, so the traditional diet must be protective? Yet they have a high rate of gastric cancer. I have tended to avoid their pickled, salted & otherwise preserved 'delicacies' for this reason.

Yet umeboshi is known to be effective against certain enterobacteria. It could be the antimicrobial effect is just what you needed to calm your innards.

Perhaps some other brave souls will put this to a test? I would have tried it 15+ years ago.

-Patrick

[Tall_Allen]

It is usually transient.

[diamondrn]

I had a severe constipation problem brought on by ADT therapy; and bleeding, etc. The doctor recommended one capful (17 grams) of over-the-counter Miralax (Polyethelene Glycol) mixed with about 3 ounces of warm water every morning.

No more constipation problems for me. It is cheap, especially the generic at Walmart.

I sure wish I had known that serious constipation was so easy to take care of, before it became such a problem.

[John438]

Here’s hoping it doesn’t also become radiation cystitis. Both are extremely nasty but the Cystitis almost did me in last month.

[diamondrn in reply to John438]

I have been hospitalized twice in the last 6 months for Cystitis that became a Septicemia (bloodstream infection); the last one was life-threatening. The bug was Citrobacter.

[John438 in reply to diamondrn]

My lupus had kicked in and I had two blood autoimmune infections, ITP and cold agglutinin disease. The ITP lowered my platelet count and It caused me to almost bleed out, and the other had the white blood cells attacking the red blood cells.

[diamondrn in reply to John438]

That was close. Glad you made it, John438.

[MateoBeach]

Radiation, the gift that keeps on giving. 🤣🤣 Glad it worked for you. Like your Latin insight. 👌

[npaulson1]

My proctitis showed up about a year after IMRT and went on for about eight months. It;s now faded to almost nothing -- apparently I've built a new web of blood vessels down there. I would have tried the plums, but I soldiered through with stool softeners and black pants.