Hello friends! Ever since treatment (partial glossectomy, chemo, and rad 9 years ago) I have severe oral thrush always. I go on 14 day regimen of fluconazol, clears up, then after 2 weeks I’m back on fluconazol. Anyone else experience this? I’ve tried clotrimazole lozenges but they didn’t seem to work and made me extremely nauseous (which I had to take 5x a day). I’ve tried the fluconazol swishes, nystatin cream for my lips when it spreads that far, a candidia diet eating yogurt and cutting sugars that feed it, tried homemade swishes all just to revert back to the fluconazol cycle.

Just curious if anyone else is running into this and has something that is working for them long term! Thank you!


Shelby, 28 yrs old, stage 3 tongue cancer, non- smoker, not HPV, 12/27/12 partial glossectomy and neck dissection, 1 lymph node positive, Chemo and Rad 5 days a week, 32 treatments, feeding tube in, finish treatment 3/22/13 smile back to normal basically