 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Are you rinsing your mouth baking soda and/or salt and water. If you can gargle with it, it might help. Charm said seltzer water worked for him. I don't remember if he rinsed with it or drank it. The suction machine will help with what is in the mouth, but not the throat. You will just gag yourself if you try to put it down the throat.
Take care,
Eileen
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Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III
mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad
Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND
June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer
June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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