Minnie,
the good thing about OCF is that we don't all have to be insane at the same time. (PS the name of the Montovani song in The Cuckoo's Nest during med time was "Charmaine")

Maybe Brian needs to add another "F" - "Oral Cancer Fear Factor".

I had a scare this week myself which had me running back to the H&N surgeon, three weeks after my routine 4 month followup - it turns out that I have some kind of candidiasis (they cultured it, will find out next week). It's not typical thrush - no white patches - but I'm taking an anti-fungal and it's responding. Kind of strange after 4 years of not even having a cold. I had severe problems with thrush going through treatment - I took 400mg of Diflucan daily as a maintenance dose. They have me on Clotrimazole because of my liver (Diflucan is hard on the liver and during treatment the risk of thrush going systemic was far greater then the risk to the liver). I've also been getting exhaustive liver tests because my numbers spiked during my 6 month labs - actually got an automatic referal to a gastro-enterologist liver specialist. I have HCV so they have to watch that as well - hey - stereo fear factor;-)
Anyway all of the numbers dropped in a followup bloodtest(s) and a Fibrosure test indicated mild scaring so they recommended waiting a few years until better drugs are available. It's a slow moving freight so I am not too concerned. Sounds like a plan to me. I have no burning desire to have Interferon and Ribivarin ct.