Husband is very leary of starting radiation, can some of you post what your situation was. How far into it did you start feeling the side effects and how bad were they? Were you still able to do your job. Did you still feel like doing activities outside the home and feel like socializing still? How bad was the pain and did the meds relieve it. How bad was the sore throat and mouth pain? Were you able to eat or did you need a Peg or feeding tube? Did you lose a lot of weight. He is having his vocal area and both sides of neck radiated. Did this effect your speech and was it long term? He has lost a lot of his voice already from the first surgery which removed the right vocal cord, it is a hoarse and whispy sounding with no volume. We still don't know how radiation will increase his survival rate for this rare cancer but hope to have answers on Monday before we start. Does added chemo make it much worse? Thanks so much!!!! This board has been so helpful already!!