OP Senior Member (100+ posts) Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 126 | Glad your ulcer has gone away Cheryl!
The pain has gotten better, I think I might have had an infection. I got on antibiotics and I can at least talk now, which is a big improvement to how I was feeling!
I also got the results back of the biopsy, which came back as mild dysplasia. My doctor told me she got all of it, but it worries me that it just popped up out of nowhere (I only had the pain in my mouth for about a week when I got it biopsied). My doctor told me that from here on out any ulcer I get that lasts more than a week will need to get biopsied. The fact that this precancerous lesion came up just a year after my original diagnosis worries me that these things are going to keep popping up for the rest of my life until I don't catch it in time and have a recurrence. I know this is a very morbid thought, I am very happy with my results, it just makes me think. I am 25 years old, its hard to enjoy/move on with life when I have to worry that any ulcer that pops up is cancer.
But, no cancer for now so good news!
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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