Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 346 Likes: 3 | You need to talk to your doctors about this ASAP.
From what I recall, it was (should still be) standard to get a hearing check for a baseline before starting certain chemo treatments, including cisplatin and carboplatin. (I had the carboplatin.) They do have a known side effect of hearing damage, and so you'll want to talk to your oncologists to let them know what you're experiencing, and decide as a team if the treatment is worth continuing or not, if your concerns are within the realm of normal or something beyond normal. Not something folks here could diagnose, even if we were any kind of medical professionals.
And ((hugs)) ! Halfway through rads is really good! Hang in there!
Surgery 5/31/13 Tongue lesion, right side SCC, HPV+, poorly differentiated T1N0 based on biopsy and scan Selective neck dissection 8/27/13, clear nodes 12/2/13 follow-up with concerns 12/3/13 biopsy, surgery, cancer returned 1/8/14 Port installed PEG installed Chemo and rads 2/14/14 halfway through carboplatin/taxotere and rads March '14, Tx done, port out w/ complications, PEG out in June 2017: probable trigeminal neuralgia Fall 2017: HBOT Jan 18: oral surgery
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