Michele,

I did not mean to imply that your husband will feel worse after the end of the treatments. We belong to a local H/N cancer support group and we were happy to hear from some of the group members that they were able to go through chemoradiation and also managed to work at the same time. They also experienced few if any side effects during and or following the treatments.

Your right about the doctors. In our case the ENT other than saying that the last two weeks of radiation "would catch our attention" he never really said anything about the possible post-treatment health issue because he did not want to scare us away I believe. Likewise our Radiation Oncologist really did not go into issues relating to general patient health following the trteatments. I believe that their approach is to present a viewpoint that makes the treatments seem relatively easy to tolerate. We also got this viewpoint from our Chemo doctor.

In retrospect I feel that they may doing the right thing. If they were to present a different viewpoint that may scare some patients away and would then be doing a dis-service to them.
The doctors' objective is to restore the patient back to health. And I feel that they see some of these health effects (such as nausea and vomiting) as transitory which disapper wih time and they are not to overly concerned with them. For the patient though they more than an annoyance.

Finding the causea of the nausea seems near impossible. But there is a positive outlook in that it will go away with time.

Our ENT keeps telling us "it takes time". He does not say how much time because that is hard to predict. But he seems right from the experiences shared from forum members.

Vince