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Hi everyone. I have just completed my first week of daily radiotherapy. My main issue has been the burning sensation in my upper pallet and at the back of my throat. I'm also waking up drooling with a mouth full of thickish saliva/ mucus. I'm feeling...
Hi everyone, My sister is currently going through treatment for squamous cell carcinoma which was staged at pT4a N2b. She is in her early 40s with young children and it’s been a hard road upto now. She underwent the operation and reconstruction and...
been a while since I posted but need some advise please. My last treatment was 4th October 2024 and now having 8 weeks check ups with consultant. All appears to be going in the right direction so why now is my anxiety going through the roof, I am already...
I had my hospital appointment yesterday and it was no surprise to be told I have jawbone cancer. However it was then a shock to be told that they don't yet know what sort of jawbone cancer it is, but they think it is probably jawbone sarcoma. Apparently...
Hello I have come back on this site to see if there is someone who has developed osteoradionecrosis of the jaw. Mine has developed very slowly over the last 2 years and I am now in constant pain. It is difficult to eat and sleep and my quality of life...
It is now seven months since I started chemo and radiation therapy so about 20 weeks since I finished radiation treatment. My throat is still horribly inflamed and sensitive and my mucusitis pretty bad. I can just about swallow very bland foods (actually...
Hi all, I hope it's ok to post here as I haven't been diagnosed but very worried about my symptoms.. I've had a fast track referral to ent, I go next week on 20/10. I have been experiencing symptoms that we can't get to the bottom of for a while and...
Hi everyone, I'm new here today and desperate for help! My mum, who is 80 was diagnosed with throat cancer around 7 weeks ago, tonsil cancer that has spread to the glands and is inoperable. She underwent 5 days of chemo from the 15 to the 19th of September...
Hi all, me AGAIN. So mum was really staring to improve, the morpheme patch has worked a treat and she had slowly started to introduce small amounts of food (weetabix, pot noodles ??? And a biscuit dunked in tea etc) 6 wk check up went well and PET scan...
I got a biopsy on Wednesday and kept in till the Thursday and they gave me morphine for the 2 days I was in but when I got out they gave me paracetamol and diyhdracodine buts the diyhdracodine is making me sick and not helping with pain relief a dot told...
