 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | [quote=donfoo]As far as extractions, I understand root canal is an alternative as not to cause ORN. I don't know if I can do that, but will ask, but in reality my teeth have to go, what's left of them. [/quote]
Don, you are up too late, sir. It says root canals are an alternative NOT to cause ORN. You can rest easy now. ORN is not limited to the jawbone either. It's a problem of reduced blood supply and can happen to any bone. I have been watching my spinal vertebrae for a few years now as the red marrow has died off from lack of blood. It started at C-3 where the highest dose of rads was and gradually happened to all the cervical vertebrae. I stopped getting scans since there's nothing they can do about it if it progresses.
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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