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Hey everyone, I’m 6 months post chemo and radiation now and have injured my arm and the other one hurts too, doc says sprained prob. Just wondered if any of you guys experienced weakness of muscles? Not sure if it’s treatment related or where I fell arse...
Just over a month ago my 89 year old father had surgery to remove an 'extensive squamos cell carcinoma in his parotid gland'. They also found a positive lymph node from 40 or so they took from a neck dissection. The side effects of the operation has...
Hi all I have recently been diagnosed with tongue cancer in September. Due to having a fungal lung infection {Aspergillosis} during the first lock down a couple of years ago. i was supposed to be in hospital for about three days, but ended up in for...
Hi all... been a bit quiet lately as of course we had a wonderful two weeks in Tenerife, and just before we went, he decided to try a gel called oral medic, to try to get rid of the one and only persistent little bugger of on ulcer on side of his tongue...
We don't have a definite plan unveiled until Wed but last week (my partner didn't let me in room) the talk was basically surgery is the only hope. Top surgeon suggested if if my partner was any older/unfit he would send him home. So I guess there is...
Hi I have just been diagnosed (4days ago) with cancer in my left tonsil and left lymph node. I am 56 and reasonably fit and well. In general I did not have any symptoms to speak off (still don’t) until the lump in my neck appeared at the beginning of...
Hello Everyone, As the regulars here will know, I completed 30 (successful) sessions of RT and the end of July 2021 but my mouth is still not able to cope with much solid food at all. After a recent visit to the Restorative Dentistry Clinic at Dundee...
Hi everyone.....an update on my husband's progress. He's 74 He was diagnosed at the end of January '22 with late stage T4, N3, M0 - Hypopharangeal Cancer ( wrapped around his left carotid artery) His only symptom had been an annoying cough and then...
I HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE. In March I thought I had Shingles. I sent photo to Dr I along with a photo of what looked like a skin tag that had just appeared in the previous week on the side of my neck. I was given meds for shingles.The Dr wasn't concerned...
