Marie, the end of treatments and first 2 weeks after are the hardest part of the whole thing. Im sorry you are in pain. The pain gets harder to manage as the treatments go on. Most of us would use the fentanyl patch to help control the pain. Its easy to use and the patches come in 12.5mg - 100mg. At my highest I was on 150mg for about 10 days. This medication you need to be careful with. Slowly increase and decrease the dosages. If you are not using it I would think you would need at least 50mg. It takes about 24 hours before you will get the full benefit of a patch so if you have it on and you dont feel relief by the next day ask the doc to increase it. There is also other meds you can take for those times when you need something extra for breakthru pain.

I lost my voice for a few weeks as did many others on here. This will be a temporary thing for you. Keep pushing the nutrition and hydration and very soon you will be finished and on your way to a full recovery.

Stick with us and we will help you thru this.