 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,219 | Hi Linda,
Congrats on stopping smoking. That is a great accomplishment.
I can address your concern about the sores and trying to reduce their occurrence. Please check with your docs, but I prescribe and use L-Lysine myself, an amino acid which is available in any drugstore and is over the counter. You can take one 500 mg tab a day as a preventive and if a sore starts despite taking one a day, you can go to 2 500 mg tabs in the morning and 2 at night.
Good luck tomorrow and don't forget to ask if L-Lysine is OK. I don't know of any contraindications for it.
Jerry
Jerry
Retired Dentist, 59 years old at diagnosis. SCC of the left lateral border of the tongue (Stage I). Partial glossectomy and 30 nodes removed, 4/6/05. Nodes all clear. No chemo no radiation 18 year survivor.
"Whatever doesn't kill me, makes me stronger"
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