YES!! Isn't it the worst??!!! Remind me again how many weeks you are post rads Linda? I just starting noticing this w/in the past week and I'm at Week 5 post rads. I wish I had a good solution but I don't. I'm using my pain meds but it doesn't 100% take away the discomfort. I'm also using lidocaine gel and just started to use CBD oil. I'm hoping that w/ the combination of treatments, I'll get some relief. Also been using my MM but that doesn't help either.

I really need the rest and I get so frustrated when it's interrupted with this pain! I still have my PEG feeding tube and am just now starting to eat more orally but tonight when trying to eat some peaches and cottage cheese, I was in tears. I had taken an oxycodone and still could barely get the food down. I gave up and did a tube feeding instead. My speech pathologist wants me eating more orally but I'm not wanting to at this cost!

All in good time I suppose!


Kristen S.
Stage 3 SCC Surgery 2/18
35 radiation treatments-completed 6/18