Hi everyone this is my story so far, 2 months ago I started snoring and a feeling of something dangling in the back of my throat, sometimes I’d sort of choke on my saliva like going down wrong hole, so mainly cos of the snoring which seems to have come on all of a sudden I took a trip to my GP who referred me to ENT at my local hospital where they examined the back of my throat with the camera up the nose and found a lump in my Larynx and also one of my vocal cords wasn’t working and it was that which was causing the snoring
since then I’ve had a CT and MRI plus biopsy on the lump found in my larynx, tomorrow I have a ultrasound and aspiration biopsy on my lymph nodes in neck, and Tuesday I have another appointment at ENT and hoping for results of biopsy on the lump they found
so as you can imagine I’m going through thoughts of pending doom and I think I’m going to die I know you shouldn’t consult Dr Google and have got a severe rollicking from the Mrs etc , thing is when you read up about this sort of thing most say that it’s smoking and heavy alcohol use that puts you at a higher risk and I do neither, also the permanent sore throat hoarseness and cough etc I’ve had none of that only the snoring and choking sometimes
ive got a thousand and one things going through my head at the moment and I’m absolutely petrified, thinking has it spread have I had it for ages and not even known hence no symptoms, I’d appreciate any responses and I will keep you updated of all the test results
My saliva won’t come back and I’ll be confined to soup and ensure which I’m sick of already
Kenny That won’t happen. Saliva comes back slowly. Radiotherapy destroys some salivary glands permanently but I found chewing gum stimulated what salivary function I did have left and most people have enough to be able to enjoy food again. Take a look at my blog linked below this post. There are two entries mentioning acupuncture which helped me tremendously
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
It's a bit of a stretch to look this far ahead from where you are, I'm nearly seven years post RT, but my saliva now is now every bit as it was before I started; had a big bowl of sweet and sour prawn stir fry earlier and it was great.
Eating for me is still a fairly slow process and meals tend to be a little cool by the end but that's down to my second treatment in 2020 rather than the first, but my taste is 95% what it was; even curries are good.
Keep the faith.
Metastatic SCC diagnosed 8th October 2013. Modified radical neck dissection November, thirty-five radiotherapy fractions with 2xCisplatin chemo Jan/Feb 2014. Recurrence on larynx diagnosed July 2020 so salvage laryngectomy in September 2020.
