Hello, after radiation, everything heals slowly. I am now 2 years and 1 month out. I still have weird aches and pains in my original tongue and weird "booboos" that appear and go away...I just have to try and wait them out, that is the hard part. The first few were tough, but i try to wait at least 2 weeks, sometimes a month before I call my oral surgeon about it.
Once you are burned by cancer, it's hard not to think every little sore or pain will be again, but try to relax and stay calm. It's not cancer until a biopsy says so, and just try to wait it out and give it some time. smile Hang in there!

25/female at diagnosis
Dx;stage 3 SCC tongue 03/25/2010
Surgery 04/13/2010
Trach,ng tube, peg feeding tube
Hemiglossectomy, right side neck dissection, 40 lymph nodes removed. Free-Flap transplant to tongue.
30 rounds IMRT ended July 15,2010