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My first week of RT is done, thankfully they've given me a break for a while before my next lot. Seeing my Oncologist a week today and my consultant on the 23rd. The RT has left me feeling tired all the time, all i want to do is sleep. Also feeling...
Mum has terminal jaw cancer originally diagnosed in July with prognosis of one maybe two years. She has had 10 sessions of radiotherapy and has been getting steadily worse since with a lot of weight loss due to being unable to eat. We saw the consultant...
Hello again, I was diagnosed with tonsil cancer (p16 positive) in November, and I have completed two days of radiotherapy and one of chemotherapy. Things are happening. I'll list most worrying first: In chemotherapy my blood pressure shot up to dangerously...
I have seen a few posts on cough and mucous. Firstly it is an unpleasant side effect that I do not miss. Still get it a bit after 6 weeks post treatment but keeping well hydrated definitely helps. Also hospital lent me a nebuliser and that does help loosen...
I now have a permanent bad taste in my mouth. I've not lost my sense of taste, although coffee & flavoured waters are not tasting so good now. But as soon as i stop 'eating' the foul taste come back. Cleaning my teeth doesn't help either. I am waiting...
I finished treatment in early October for throat cancer. Had an MRI on my liver 5th Dec, unexpectedly after the refitting of my RIG.. The Radiologist fitting it saw 'something' which apparently was seen way back in the year that wasn't deemed to be needing...
Hi , yes it’s me again - crying babe. I feel a bit better, but now my mouth/ throat is so dry and painful.. I try to drink water, bough so gel and drops in parhacy - nothing works. What else I can’t do ? I going to see my GP regarding my ear infection...
Hello again, I was diagnosed with tonsil cancer (p16 positive) in November, and I have done all the preparation for treatment. I begin on Monday with one day a week for chemotherapy together with daily radiotherapy. Many people have told me about the...
Hi Everyone, Still positive but it's bloody hard. I am on day 22 of radiotherapy treatment. Right sided hpv tonsil cancer. Currently in hospital getting rehydrated. I am Tube fed and the food is giving me sickness and diarrhoea.Never mind not long now...
I have just been diagnosed with cancer in my tonsils and I am having surgery to remove them on Wednesday has anyone else been diagnosed with this cancer
