Hi Everyone , My partner saw an oral consultant yesterday at local hospital and there going to sort out some teeth so he has a complete bite on one side of he's mouth and said obviously because the jaw has been reconstructed he wont be able to sort...
Hi just wee update. I had a CT scan of my lungs recently as at beginning of my treatment the CT showed two tiny nodules on my lungs he described them as incidential . If ten people had a CT scan half could have them. After chasing up my cancer nurse I...
Hi again, I’m really panicking this morning and would like some advice from people with similar problems. I have cancer of the tongue and lymph nodes on right side and have been using a feeding rig for approx 3 weeks since my tongue was too sore to touch...
Hi, Finished my last of 35 radio sessions last Friday. I have been lucky to be able to continue eating throughout, albeit cottage pie, Mac and cheese and rice pudding continually. I am keen to understand when others have recovered any sense of taste...
Hi after five days of not using the duraphat toothpaste my water blisters are still the same so it can't be the SLS in the toothpaste. The blisters in my mouth are relentless and appear every single day. I used difflam today and gelclare but it's still...
Hi just wee update on the duraphat toothpaste. I have been having water blisters from week three after RT. I'm now 16 weeks post RT so for 13 weeks I have been getting water blisters every day maybe even three four every day and they can be excruciatingly...
I've been told by an ENT consultant, that he wants to carry out a "Rigid Pharyngoscopy and Oesophagoscopy" under general aneasthetic and that "I've told the patient about the 1 in 100 change of oesophageal perforation". He also mentioned that there's...
Hi just wondering if anyone can help. I am 32 years old and was diagnosed with tongue cancer around 6 weeks ago. have recently had surgery for tongue cancer I have had a part of my tongue removed and a neck dissection. I am worried about the next...
Today is my 7th day after my neck dissection surgery and the pain seems worse today than ever. I have jaw pain, tongue pain, throbbing at the site and ear ache besides the throat pain from them taking more tonsil tissue. I just wondered if this was all...
my husband has windpipe cancer also it in his cart lit there’s nothing to do without it causing his quality of life to be effected has anyone else had any experience of this
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