Hi! I am one month out from the last of 33 radiation sessions. While I have done well in some areas…skin, taste return…I have other areas where I have struggled. I still have some mouth patches, I have some fibrosis on my right inner cheek where it is thickened where the sores are, saliva and if you draw a line from mid ear to mid ear on the back of my head, most of my hair fell out below the line except for the very far left side. Most concerning is the fibrosis. I have the vit E/Pent that my onc said would help with fibrosis but I need to give it 3 months. I thought she was talking about muscle tightness in the neck area which I don’t really have a problem with. I googled the inner cheek problem and discovered it is fibrosis that I guess that’s is what she was speaking of!
Anyone have any of these issues and did they resolve?
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