hello everyone. Just an update on my recovery after treatment. I am coming up to 4 weeks post treatment now and just wanting some tips from everyone. I am starting to try little bites of new foods. Taking advice from you all when I have asked before. I have just eaten 2 custard creams dipped in tepid coffee(Thankyou for your blog Hazel) i find my apetite is not really there and I am doing what you all suggested and using food as fuel. Can I ask when other people’s appetites returned. Another issue I am having is where the site is healing at the base of my tongue makes me cough and gag sometimes which I hate. Phlegm is still a biggish issue and just wondering when other people’s dried up? Does it always dry up? Also, when do you start feeling less tired? Sorry to ask so many questions but any reply welcome. Thankyou
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Hi Lizzie. My appetite was rubbish for 6 months. Couldn’t care whether I ate. At nearly three years my taste still comes and goes occasionally. I found tiredness was eased with gentle exercise. I was back running at a year but brisk walking till then.Radiation fatigue can persist for some time. Sometimes fatigue just comes from nowhere and poleaxes you and for me that stopped at about a year. By 12 weeks my sticky mouth and phlegm had gone. You are doing very well.
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
