Speech

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Hello,

Just wondered if anyone else has had speech problems post radiotherapy.

My partner finished his treatment in October 2024 and thank goodness it was a success. As well as the usual RT side affects his speech is still a problem in terms of being clear. Before his treatment his speech had started to be slurred which was due to the cancer having spread to his tongue. His tongue was quite swollen on the cancer side of his mouth but is reducing now and definitely not as swollen. His speech at times is really quite difficult understand and he lisps/slurs alot. He still finds he's either dry mouthed at times or excess saliva.

He is due to be assessed by the Speech and Language Team this week but I just wondered if anyone else has had a similar problem with their speech.

Peter E 14 hours ago

T2N1M0 Tonsil cancer HPV16+

During and post chemoradio I had some speech probs CNS and SALT said it was common in patients, cleared up in a few months....though dry mouth still persists to some degree 20 months on.

Peter

Jg123 13 hours ago

Hi I had an operation on my tongue and RT 30 sessions which finished end of June 2024. I also had head neck dissection and after that and my tongue op I could speak normally. Then after RT I noticed I had a bit of a lisp. Days I feel my tongue is swollen and stiff. I do all my exercises but still feel a lisp at times. Especially if dry mouth. At the minute I am using an iopi machine to help improve the muscles in my tongue and hopefully get rid of the lisp. I saw it at a conference and sussed it out myself but between my SLT and me we have it in loan for eight weeks to see if it helps. My tongue is definitely weaker with RT . Jackie

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