OP  Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 81 Likes: 2 | 4 of 30 rads completed (I started on a Tuesday.)
The radiation techs are so kind; I received candy on day 1 and small beanie baby bear on day 2. There are four of them and they have shown my partner and my best friend the full set up.
I have about an hour of swallowing, tongue, and neck exercises I do per day broken out in three sessions. Still working and eating most things though my throat has started to hurt a little. On gabapentin and have slowly worked my way up to 900mg 3x/day. Side effects are a little dizziness and a hand tremor.
Anxious about pain as we continue but pushing forward.
Keep fighting friends!
Me -- currently 53 years old
SCC diagnosed 3/7/2017 at age 48
Staging SCC HPV+ T0,N1 primary unknown
PET 3/16, no activity, biopsies 3/23 benign
TORS surgery identified 2mm tumor in BOT (vallecula)
Cancer restaged T1, N2, M0
Begin 30 sessions of radiation (60 Gy) 6/13
Completed radiation 7/24/2017
1st MRI clear 10/23/2017!!
2nd MRI clear 10/17/2018!
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