| "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: May 2008 Posts: 551 | Michele,
I lost a quite a bit of weight during treatment and after 7-weeks of radiation and all the trouble I had with eating again (lack of taste, dry-mouth etc.) it was a full two years before I gained a single pound back. Recovery is NOT the time to think you should be losing weight or worrying about gaining it back. Your body has been put through hell and needs all the good nutrients you can give it to recover well and as quickly as possible.
- Margaret
Stage IV SCC lt lateral tongue, surgery 5/19/08 (partial gloss/upper neck dissection left side/radial free flap reconstruction) IMRT w/weekly Cisplatin & Erbitux 6/30/08, PEG 1 6/12/08 - out 7/14 (in abdominal wall, not stomach), PEG 2 7/23/08 - out 11/20/08, Tx done 8/18/08
Second SCC tumor, Stage 1, rt mobile tongue, removed 10/18/2016, right neck dissection 12/9/2016
Third SCC tumor, diagnosed, 4/19/2108, rt submandibular mass, HPV-, IMRT w/ weekly Cisplatin, 5/9 - 6/25/2018, PEG 3 5/31/2018
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