I have just completed week 3 of CRT. I am feeling so awful emotionally. I can't eat properly due to ulcers and my mouth not opening much following surgery. I haven't felt this low since I started treatment. Please tell me it gets better. I also lost 4lb in weight last week.
Oh poor you. I know how you feel. It doesn’t get better until a good few weeks after you’ve finished. So take a deep breath, take all your pain relief by the clock, tell your radiographers every day how you feel so they can pass on any problems to your team. Use your feeding tube to keep your weight up just put your head down and get on with it.
What support do you have at home?
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
Hi Dani, I have an amazing husband at home who will do anything for me. Actually, not long after I wrote this I was looking for something to tempt my appetite and he came into the kitchen. He took one look at me and I burst into tears. I'm more a bottle it up person than a cryer but I really let it out. I don't have a feeding tube but the team I am with have brought forward my review to Wednesday next week with a view to fitting an NG. I'm a little concerned as I have had surgery on my sinuses and nose and I have a hole in my nose which caused problems with the NG the first time they fitted it. I really think though that the stress of trying to eat and hit my target for calories is overwhelming me.
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