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Hi, At start of week 3 and mouth and throat starting to become sore. After tips on what worked best for people when trying to manage this? Both pain relief and mouthwashes etc Thanks in advance Jason
Hi all Just to let you know that I saw my consultant today to discuss results from MRI and PET scans. He told me that there was a small tumor on my tonsil and on my lymph gland. But he is fairly confident that they should only need to do surgery and...
Hello My mum still has a peg but she is trying to eat a little bit, too.She has pain under her left rib a month now.The pain comes and goes and can be sharp.Doctors don't know what is it.Did anybody had similar pain ?She had an ompresole tablets but...
Hi sorry for complaining again but having a bad day with water blisters. I must have one at very back of throat and pain is excruciating. I took some ibuprofen and difflam which has now kicked in but omg sooo painful. I seem to get these every day. Does...
Hi all, Anyone got any good tips for dry mouth ? Finished RT treatment in Feb 24, healing etc going well, everyone pleased with progress. However in the last two months my dry mouth has really kicked in. I currently have oragell that tastes crap and...
Hi was wondering if this is normal. I'm nine weeks post RT. I still have swelling inside my cheek and it looks swollen every day. Is this due to RT and will it go down eventually or is it lymphoedema . I do my neck and mouth exercises a few times every...
New to the forum. 5 weeks post surgery for stage 2 HPV driven tonsil cancer. Also had TORS procedure. Luckily no CRT needed. I’d really like to chat longer term recovery. My consultant has said ‘back to normal’ in 6 weeks but ‘normal’ seems a long way...
Hi This is my first time posting and was hoping for a bit of advice and well, reassurance ! My partner, Rob was diagnosed with SCC on the floor of his mouth in October last year, had op to remove it. He finished 6 weeks of radiotherapy on 06/03/24,...
Hi All, just wondering if anyone reassure me how common it is to have a sore throat 5 months on from finishing radiotherapy and chemo. My husband had a neck dissection 2 weeks ago too. I think he is a bit anxious that it feels quite sore alot of the time...
Well, PET scan 3 about 4 weeks ago. A year since I finished treatment and Boom! x2 new areas of concern have shown up on the scan. Just when we thought we were out of the cancer woods. Apparently there are two 3mm glows showing in level II Lymph nodes...
