So your husband went back to work playing his instruments 3 weeks after getting done with treatment, which would certainly put some stress upon the radiated area (not saying this is all bad, just being realistic), and now he is experiencing pain in the area? I would think he would have some pain. And this is the area that saliva accumulates (vallecula) & he probably doesn't have any saliva to speak of, I'm guessing. Probably it's a little hard on his throat right now.
I know you said the pain got worse when he stopped playing, but pain is funny like that when you don't have something else distracting you.
I guess with just a PET scan to go on & so soon after treatment I wouldn't panic yet. Is he being followed at a place where they treat lots of head and neck cancer patients?
Anne
SCC tongue 9/2010, excised w/clear margins:8 X 4 mm, 1 mm deep
Neck Met, 10/2010, 1 cm lymph node; 12/21/'10: Neck Diss 30 nodes, 29 clear, micro ECE node, part tongue gloss, no residual scc
IMRT & 6 cisplatin 1/20/11-2/28/11 at MDA
GIST tumor sarcoma, removed 9/2011, no chemo needed
Clear on both counts as of Fall, 2021
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