Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 458 | Hi Leena, you are at about the worst of the process, just after radiation is done. Good news is that things pretty much get better from here, but it's a kind of slow process. The last week of rad I was doing good to get soup, yoghurt and ensure down the hatch. Did the rad/chemo twice, first time involved radiation to the tongue went from 170 to 145. Second time just had rad to neck, but still went from 145 to 128.
Now back up to all of 140, mostly because my diet is fairly low fat and I don't really want to put on a lot of weight anyway.
Bob
SCC Tongue, stage IV diagnosed Sept, 2002, 1st radical neck dissection left side in Sept, followed by RAD/Chemo. Discovered spread to right side nodes March 2003, second radical neck dissection April, followed by more RAD/Chemo.
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