Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)    Joined:  Nov 2002  Posts: 3,552  |    Cindy,  my RO warned me about "texturing" in the neck  muscles as a result of the radiation and I didn't really understand what that meant but recently, at times, it feels like something is trying to twist my neck, this accompanied with a headache.  I just had an MRI and it all looked good (except for the "usual" stuff like spondylosis (aka osteoarthritus - common in my age group), so I don't think that there are any other physiological reasons for this.  I just pop  a valium and a Vicodin and it goes away.  Just to be safe though I would mention the headache issues to the MO.
  "Chemo brain" - that took a while before I could put together whole sentences ;-)  Three years post Tx my memory is back to normal now.        
Gary Allsebrook *********************************** Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2 Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy) ________________________________________________________ "You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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