Hi everyone I thought I'd update on my husband's situation. Briefly he was given a dire prognosis in Jan'22 of inoperable/ untreatable T4N3 cancer in Hypopharynx. ....perhaps a few weeks, maybe months to live. The tumour is around his carotid artery...
Hi, Just finished third week of radiotherapy with one round Cisplatin first week.Next round on Wednesday.Haven't been able to eat since end of second week but can manage to drink a pint of full fat milk each day and with the fortisips haven't lost any...
HPV16 tonsil cancer - treatment finished January 23. It was all going so well. The cancer MRI showed all clear, I was getting fitter, was back at work, and had even been on two holidays in England. Then last Monday at work I got up from my chair and...
Hi Everyone, I am 9 months post treatment. I had right sided tonsil Cancer stage one,node one. Surgery followed bye radiotherapy which I finished in Dec 2022. Overall I am doing well and am fortunate to have no evidence of disease.But my anxiety It...
Hi everyone I was diagnosed with cancer in my tongue (squamous cel carcinoma) and completed my treatment in January 2021. Fortunately I am still cancer free and feel very grateful to have survived even though I do now have some long term symptoms from...
It's been 3 days since my last RT and I was doing great until yesterday. OMG it just came on out of nowhere, I know you all said it may happen but I really did think I'd be way better than this lol I've started taking Oxycodone along with the paracetamol...
Morning I've had an awful night sleep, well no sleep really as I've been coughing my head off so much that my throat feels raw and the phlegm had blood in it a few times during the night. I've had a look around and it looks like something that has happened...
I’m now 4 weeks post radiology. The treatment is tough but so it seems is recovering from it. I’m still so sore in my throat that I still can’t eat solid food. I’m on supplements and soup daily at the moment. It’s made harder by not having any taste still...
Morning I'm in week 6 of radiotherapy, 3 sessions to go, and having a nightmare with mucus while trying to sleep. Keep waking up every hour to cough it up gross! I have Mucodyne to take 3 times a day, rinse my mouth with Caphosol 6 times a day and I...
Evening everyone, My Dad underwent fibular free flap surgery with left side neck dissection in February of that year. Six days into recovery he unfortunately suffered full free flap failure. It was a huge blow. The surgery was repeated harvesting muscle...
