Hey Folks, sorry that I haven't been on this site in a bit. i do tend to hang on the American Cancer site also. I am 3 months post treatment. Of the pain meds, no more pain in mouth. I do have the dry mouth worse at night. can't seem to get rid of the white build up on tongue but the insist it isn't thrush, but I do drink a lot of vanilla ensure so maybe that is what it is. Taste is probably at 50%, I can taste all yogurts, i can eat biscuits and gravy, pot pies, veggies, chicken and steak but slow. Scallops go down good. I do have stiffness in neck and get intermittent fluid build up in neck from lymph drainage. Depression is probably the hardest, as you know I'm single and that seems to bother me more than the cancer! I want to live again, I want to love and be loved and I'm not sure if and when that will happen ever again! What's the purpose of beating cancer if you have to be alone! frown

Charles

Last edited by Irishgypsie; 10-01-2010 09:07 AM.
Charles

HPV +16 Right Tonsil SCC with 1 Right lymph node. Tonsillectomy and neck resection.

Got 33 radiation doses via tomo machine (58 gry to back of throat, 65 gry to right neck, and 56 gry to left neck) with 2 cisplatin and one carboplatin due to possible hearing loss.