 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I should clarify - it's more like phlegm and having to clear my throat a lot, especially in the morning. It's not like the thick, stringy mucous that I had post Tx when my salivary glands were fried from the radiation.
I had to take a course of prednisone a few weeks ago because of fluid buildup in my right ear and it seemed to mitigate the phlegm a lot. Prednisone is a pretty powerful drug however and I had to other, unanticipated, side effects from it.
Gary Allsebrook
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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)
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