I'm not sure how to do this....I'm new here....hello. I had radiation in my mouth for a small tumor in my lower right jaw. I had 10 treatments and now I am at 9 weeks since that ended and my mouth is still hurting and I have to use lidocaine all day long because of the pain. Can anyone tell me if this is normal for healing and how long have you had the mouth pain?
One of the problems is that talking makes my mouth hurt and I love to talk......LOL I don't want to go too far from home because I need to be able to rinse my mouth so often. I do carry a small bottle of the lidocaine/maalox mix and a cup to spit it into. Yuck
And I don't want to go to the park and walk because the pain interferes with any exercise, too. And I miss working out.
I hope someone out there can give me some positive feedback and support.
Thank you.
Betts