 Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 126 | Hi Ed,
Glad I happened to see your post! The medicine was a mixture of the following:
10% lidocaine, 10% prilocaine, 4% tetracaine.
I would dab it on with a q-tip before eating, and it made it more bareable. The gel burned a bit when I first put it on, but once it started to numb up it felt better. Good luck!!
Emily - 24 years old at diagnosis
HPV-, no risk factors
T2N2b Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Left oral tongue, poorly differentiated
Hemiglossectamy, reconstruction, partial neck dissection
30 Radiation treatments, weekly chemo (cisplatin)
1/13/12 last day of treatment
Diagnosed October 2011
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