Hi,
My post will sound somewhat like the others worrying about symptoms....what I am wondering, is did anyone else's cancer start the same way? or maybe it turned out to be something else? Everything points to oral/throat cancer but there isn't anything to biopsy according to my ENT ! I go back Wednesday, so I am hoping he has a plan B.
I've had head/neck CT scans - negative. Blood work good. Xray of jaw at dentist's and no tooth involvement and nolesion was seen (is this strong enough of an Xray??) No fever. No obvious mouth sores, but horrible pain under lower molars for almost a month. 3x prednisone, antibiotics, massage, muscle relaxer, magic mouthwash and antiinflammatories. All on one side, my neck hurts a lot and is slightly swollen but lymph node is not elarged. My tongue hurts on that side and feels like its being drawn back down my throat. I have an earache with a fluid like fulllness that echos. Hurts to talk, eat and horrible to swallow. Gums around the back 4 teeth are red, sore and swollen, along with throat.
I had Triple negative BC 2 yrs ago and my likelihood of recurrence is still high. Am I headed toward the inevitable? If so, ok, but the constant 24/7 pain is driving me nuts even with hydrocodone. Its been really really really (!) hard to work the last 3 weeks and I dread another week of eating bananas and hydrocodone, hoping no one will notice. Dr. will biopsy whatever I ask him to check and prob an MRI or PET scan, but actual diagnosis is probably a good 2 weeks away if not more.
Thank you for listening! What do you think?