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Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 94 | Thank you for all the support guys! Finished treatment #12. I am going to start using a skin cream called RadiaPlexRx that a friend recommended- her Mom used it when getting rads for breast cancer and she apparently had nos kin issues at all. My RO gave green light though he was skeptical about it making a difference.
PaulB, you are spot on about Gabapentin and dosage: I am indeed taking 300mg pills, 3x3 a day, for a daily total of 2700mg. It is the morning and afternoon ones that make me fill quite dizzy. Mt RO said I could decrease the noon dose to 2 or even 1 pill if absolutely necessary.
36, female, left tonsil HPV+ SCC, T2N1
8/28/13 SCC in left tonsil
9/12/13 surgery:TORS and selective neck dissection (levels II-IV), 23 nodes removed
9/18/13 post surgery biopsy: 2mm clear margins, a 7mm lymph node positive in level IV, no ECL
10/28/13 rad begins, 30 treatments, tomotherapy
12/09/13 radiation ends!
2/10/14 papillary thyroid cancer
2/26/14 PET shows clear neck other than thyroid cancer, but with high uptake in an ovarian cyst
2/27/14 thyroidectomy
3/5/14 pelvic ultrasound
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