Hi All,
Gordon is 2 months post treatment now. It has been a struggle for him to start eating solid foods, but we were managing moist meat loaf, well cooked vegetables, even some rice and toast. This in spite of the lack of saliva and taste. Also, he's been pretty much pain-free for the last 3 or 4 weeks.

Last week, after having some ice-cream (and pressing it into the roof of his mouth with his tongue to melt it, as he can't really chew it because of the cold), he noticed his throat was a bit sore. His GP said he had an "apthous ulcer" at the back of his throat, but the ENT surgeon (who is really good and very experienced), said he's having a breakdown of the mucosal(?) tissue at the back of his throat and there was the one large ulcer and some smaller ones. (His radiation oncologist refused to see him and the nurse at the clinic told us that the RO said this was "part of the recovery process!) Basically it'll take a week or two to get better and there isn't much you can do to speed it along. He said the ice-cream was not the cause.

So now he's back to 3 milkshakes a day, oatmeal, yogurt etc. and is very, very depressed as it feels like a 6 week setback.

Has anyone else had something like this crop up weeks or months after treatment has ended? Is there really nothing that can be done to heal it faster?
The surgeon said he sees this post-treatment reaction all the time, so it can't be that uncommon.
What to do, if anything?
Thanks, Anne