Thnaks all,

I have a question about thrush and treatment for thrush. First of all, I am having some VERY bad mouth pain at night. Mainly in those same two spots: the right side of my tongue, which may be aggravated by rubbing against a rough tooth edge there, and the front roof of my mouth which feels completely dried out at night and filled with bumps and ridges. The pain is so bad that even taking 15 mg of oxydose (which I only do for breakthrough pain, otherwise it's 5 or 10), I was woken up by it several times. I am thunking this pain must partly be from thrush, unless my docs are wrong and its a recurrence of cancer--which I certainly hope is not the case and is statistically unlikely.

All I have ever been given to treat thrush is a magic mouthwash with nystatin in it. I guess that's not quite true--I did get diflucan when I was in the hospital wuth an infection right after rad was over, but just to take during the time I was being treated with antibiotics. So that ended once I was out of the hospital.

I'm supposed to do the magic mouthwash 4 times a day and I have a terrible time rememebring to do it--mainly because I hate the taste of it and it is also often very painful when I swish it around. Is there some reason why I shouldn't get a prescription for diflucan or some other anti-thrush pill (or, in my case, I guess I'd need a liquid for the tube) and see if that doesn't clear up[ a lot of this pain? If it is just pain from thursh that is never really fully cured that is making it impossible to eat, I'd like to know that and I am learning from experience that the magic mouthwash just isn't going to do it for me!

But the docs seem very reluctant to prescribe this. Is that because of bad side effects? Could my dentist prescribe it (maybe I'll ask him)?


SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"