Here I am again - bitching about this constant sweet-putrid taste in my mouth, with constant mucus. Am I the only one that has this? It's not just when I first get up in the a.m., it's constantly there; I spit (yuk) all day long to get it out. It'll be 2 years next week since my tratments (chemo and radiaiton for tonsil cancer), and it's worse now than during and right after treatments. I keep mentioning my complaint in hopes that someone else has the sweet, after-effect and it can be related to the treatments. I'm in the process of having other things checked out (e.g., gall bladder, hietal hernea, other gastro problems), but if I find others have had such a problem and associate it with treatment after effects, maybe I could accept that is what it is - after effects. My chemo and radiation doctors say it could or could not be associated??? Has anyone out there had such. Thanks for any replies.
julieann
Julieann
Nov 2007 SCC on right tonsil following tonsillectomy. Was smoker, QUIT. (Stage IV T2 N2b) 7 weeks radiation one day/wk chemo (carboplatin and 5-FU). Allergic to Taxol; PEG in, lost 30 lbs. TX completed January 2008. PEG out mid- 2008. PET/CT 1/17/2011;2/3/12 NEGATIVE for cancer