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Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 346 Likes: 3 | Definitely get a thyroid baseline. One of my doctors tried to say that my thyroid failure post-radiation wouldn't have happened 'if it wasn't about to happen anyway' as if I was trying to blame him or something. I was just trying to get to the root of the problem, which was fatigue caused by thyroid failure! And I needed the numbers to prove what was going on, which fortunately I had. It doesn't happen to everyone ... mine probably did have issues beforehand ... but it's better to know all your numbers!
Surgery 5/31/13
Tongue lesion, right side
SCC, HPV+, poorly differentiated
T1N0 based on biopsy and scan
Selective neck dissection 8/27/13, clear nodes
12/2/13 follow-up with concerns
12/3/13 biopsy, surgery, cancer returned
1/8/14 Port installed
PEG installed
Chemo and rads
2/14/14 halfway through carboplatin/taxotere and rads
March '14, Tx done, port out w/ complications, PEG out in June
2017: probable trigeminal neuralgia
Fall 2017: HBOT
Jan 18: oral surgery
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