Hi everyone, am just 10 days into this cancer journey, not yet diagnosed. Have a lesion on my tongue, swollen lymph node just under my ear and few symptoms which I don't know if are connected (namely tinnitus, pressure and numbness in face and stiffness...
Hi everyone Thank you so much to everyone who replied on my last post hitting the 5 week wall. My husband is just about to start week 7 and he is feeling so ill. It feels like whatever we put in via the rig is coming up with sickness. The mucus is making...
I'm going for a glossing in September and would like to know about people's experience about life after and work etc.
Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum and I'm here because my Mum who is 68 is just about to start treatment for oraphangeal cancer hpv positive. She is besides herself with anxiety that has been made worse by her mask fitting she had last week. When...
Does anyone know how many sizes and types of NG tubes there are? There must be a range of types and sizes as I have heard them talked about in the background. First three experienced nurses tried and failed to fit tubes. Then a lovely lady with specialist...
Hi all. My husband has just finished the 5 th week out of 7 for hpv cancer which was found in his tonsil. At the end of the week he has just hit a wall with zero energy and feeling awful, unable to even drink a little water. It’s all going via the feeding...
I have eight more treatments to go but feeding myself is the biggest challenge.Having no taste and a sore throat and mouth ,can anyone suggest any additives to do it eggs or anything to provoke a taste reaction to food.I am a 74 year old woman with no...
I am two weeks post-op. Amazingly, the tumor that was on the floor of my mouth extending onto the side of my tonsillar pillar was basically “dead” and no cancer or dysplasia was found anywhere in this extremely extensive free flap reconstruction surgery...
Not sure if anyone can help with this one but as an avid member of a choir i’m keen to know the likelihood of being able to resume this hobby post partial glossectomy and lymph node dissection. Anyone else on here had to deal with this ?
Hi all My mum finished her 6 weeks of radiotherapy/chemo on 6th June. Spent a lot of time in hospital due to various infections (mainly RIG related) she did well throughout, eating drinking etc, then had to start using the rig from week 3 after treatment...
