hisnibs,

I have ulcers on both sides of my tongue. The left side is almost gone three weeks out and the right side still hurts but not as bad as it did the past few weeks.

My RO said ulcers can last 3 to 6 weeks. I think I may go out the 6 but I can take the pain now that I know it is diminishing.

My IMRT machine went down on me twice in treatment. The tech said that it has a failsafe that counts the level of rads. He said it will never give you too much and will give you what you need if it goes out to soon. So when it gets back up it will makeup any shortfall. I know this because I counted the buzzes every time. I was getting five 15 second buzzes and I got 6 one time and two were shorter times. I was counting my breaths every treatment and noticed the change in treatment. I had to ask when I got up and only then did they tell me the machine had an "un-scheduled pause". It happened again one more time and we all commented on it.

Kelly