Thank you for the information Susan. I have been doing that tongue depressor exercise and right now I can only get 4 of them between my molars in the back. I guess I have it pretty bad. I explained that to my doctor and he still says ignore it, it will pass, be patient. My family says the same thing. Well, that's all fine and good, but in the meantime I am losing weight rapidly and constantly going to bed with an upset stomach. My speech is way off and the swelling from where they took all my lymph nodes is out of control and becomes very painful when I do the mouth exercises. I really appreciate your input, and I will continue the exercises until I go see both my radiation oncologist and my Reconstructive doctor. My appt is scheduled for Nov. 17th, they both feel this is not an emergency situation and it can wait to be checked out. I don't know if they are just blowing me off or they feel from past cases with patients that this is no big deal. I am hoping it's no big deal. So for now I will ignore it till then but continue the exercises.

Again thank you very much for sharing your experiences with me.