 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,409 | Anne, you're at the best cancer hospital in the country. So listening to your doctors would be the wisest thing you could do. In re weight loss, I started at around 188 so had the 30 to lose (going from a normal beanpole to a skinny beanpole). And as I recall that wasn't all from the RT. I'd had the neck dissection and some complications so spent 11 days in the hospital the month before and dropped some of it then.
If they recommend a PEG tube, take it. I can't speak from experience of one, but I know the alternative is a bitch!
You're in great hands.
d2
David 2
SCC of occult origin 1/09 (age 55)| Stage III TXN1M0 | HPV 16+, non-smoker, moderate drinker | Modified radical neck dissection 3/09 | 31 days IMRT finished 6/09 | Hit 15 years all clear in 6/24 | Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome kicked in a few years after treatment and has been progressing since | Prostate cancer diagnosis 10/18
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