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#59008 09-27-2006 02:28 AM
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Has anyone else experienced this? Two years after radiation & chemo, my father has these jaw spasms, he calls lock jaw. Immense pain that comes and goes, he cannot move his jaw until it subsides?

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#59009 09-27-2006 06:15 AM
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Hi Vickie, I have experienced the lock jaw thing, it can be extremely painful, but fortunately it does not last long, at least not so far with mine....God Bless, Carol


Diagnosed May 2002 with Stage IV tongue cancer, two lymph nodes positive. Surgery to remove 1/2 tongue, neck dissection, 35 radiation treatments. 11/2007, diagnosed with cancer of soft palate, surgery 12/14/07, jaw split. 3/24/10, cancer on tongue behind flap, need petscan, surgery scheduled 4/16/10
---update passed away 8-27-11---
#59010 09-27-2006 09:00 AM
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Severe muscle spasms. Massaging them is all I can do. I had this happen last week in the middle of a lecture... took about 30 seconds to get things back to normal. It has gotten progressively worse the further I get out from treatment. Docs say that it is a combination of the scar tissue in the muscles from radiation and nerve damage also from the same source.


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#59011 09-27-2006 06:20 PM
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Happens to me too but with no particular regularity. I have Valium and codiene for it but haven't taken the codiene yet. Sometimes it'll "pingpong" from one side of my neck to the other. Hurts like heck to have it massaged and my wife is a certifed massage therapist. My RO warned me of the same thing as Brian - even before radiation. Sometimes it feels just like a charlie horse.


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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