Supporting Member (50+ posts) Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 60 Likes: 2 | I know what you are going through. I had 35 radiation treatments. My problem is that I stop eating all together. I tried the drinks and it would take me 2 hours to drink 8 oz of water. I could not taste food. In one month I drop 50 pounds and they could not put in a feeding tube since I was at 325 pounds. So they they ended up giving me IV feedings. I was on IV feeding for 5 months until I forced my self to eat (that was 4 months after treatment.) I still have my good days and bad days with eating.
Please keep you head up and things will get better.
Round 1 5/2007 - 35 Rad treatments and 6 chemo of cisplatin TPN feeding for 5 months during treatment and after. Tumor was on the right side of the tongue.
Round 2. Tumor on the lower back right jaw area. Surgery on 3/12/2010 to remove the tumor, rebuild the jaw and some work on the back tongue.
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