 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Get him to a shrink. Then to a swallowing therapist.
I had the same treatment and I was eating pizza 4 months later (I did not have the neck disection however).
Salivary function return after IMRT can take 18 months. I just always carried a water bottle everywhere and ate moist foods. Like Cathy said though it was a phase in process and took some experimentation.
We often have more caregivers than patients here - sometimes it's just too real for the patients.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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