We are 11 weeks post treatment - 35 Rads and 3 Cisplatin for Stage 4 SCC of Rt Tonsil. My husband started swallowing and trying food 5 weeks ago, and it's slow going. He's still tube feeding as well. The problem is that he has projectile vomiting at random times. No triggers that we can see. Not necessarily related to eating or tube feeding. He's lost 23 pounds in the last 4 weeks alone. The GI doc can't find anything to be causing this except for possible pain meds. (He's still on a Fentanyl patch and has tapered off break-through pain meds.) The oncologist thinks it may be a spastic esophagus that's just not healed. But it comes out of the blue, without warning, and then his energy is zapped. So, now he's so paranoid to eat or tube feed, so he's only getting 1000 calories per day which is not good. We're desperate. He'll have good days without any vomiting and good energy and then vomiting again. Thoughts anyone?


Kevin

Age 42, Stage 4 SCC w/Right Tonsil and 6 nodes positive, Neck Dissection 6/01, 35 rads with 1x/3wk cisplatin, peg 7/2010. completed treatment 8/17/10.