Thanks Eric. I have the CT scan scheduled for Monday Feb 15th. as well as appointment to see my dentist for him to look at my tongue and floor of mouth specificially. Hopefully results within a few days of that will give me some definitive answers good or bad. Regardless of the results I think I am going to go to MSKCC to see thier Head & Neck dept. The worst part of all this is the unknown of everything. After a year + with no real answer and now worsening symptoms I'm both frustrated and terrified. Everything I read points to some from of oral cancer yet how can an ENT not recognize it after a year and why would he have waited a year to order a scan? Scary stuff.