Hi all, I had my surgery 3 weeks ago to remove a tumour and dysplasia on the side of my tongue.
3 weeks later, I am not in pain and I don't rake meds on it. The last check up was 1 week ago.
I am experiencing the following and just wanted sanity check from those who experienced similar situations.
1. Part of my tongue feels swollen or otherwise "stuck", i feel like I have a huge tongue tie and can't move it and feel this mass on the side the surgery happened on.
2. Occasionally tingling feeling on the surgery site. Usually in the afternoon/evening. It's like my tongue is partly bathjng in very fizzy water?
3. Since yesterday I felt this occasionally throbbing mild pain on the back side of my tongue. It goes away after a few minutes
4. The top of my tongue in the back of my mouth started feeling like someone made a horizontal papercut on it
5. The teeth on the side and where my tumour are ache woth different levels of pain and hurts when I brush. Makes me worried if there is anything in my gums.
Is this a sign of anything or just normal 3 weeks after surgery? This is my 2nd one in the same area, 2nd time was to go back to get all of it and cut deeper and wider to get the margins which were clear.
Thank you!
Hi. Surgery ( and RT/CRT) as well as the consequent swelling does a lot of nerve damage. While the nerves are sorting themselves out you get neuropathic pain. I got odd sensations all over the place when I was healing.
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
