You actually got me to post. Michael, I'm no expert here, but there might be several issues. If you are talking in the Ocean, salt and sun are possible issues. If in a pool, sun and chlorine may irritate the area. You should have been cautioned about sun exposure at your radiation consult, but who knows. You are going into a fairly rigorous treatment plan and you may not be up for the daily swim anyway.

Other posts;

On the therabite, call them. They will know which insurance will cover it or, if yours does not, they will try to get it covered as they did with mine. It works well if you use it, but that is always the hard part. Using it! They ran about $450.00 when I got mine. I did not read the entire post, if this was covered forgive me.

As a note on the old timers. The board has changed, not necessarily for the bad, but changed. Quite honestly is has shifted from an informational source to a support group with many off topic postings. This is not bad, support is important, just different. Me, I tend to be more direct in my posts and have gotten into trouble more than once on here. I can see that my style would not be as well tolerated in the boards present climate and I choose to post, with this exception, as a PM or an email. I will say this, you will never be left unanswered by an "old timer". The information will get to you in one form or another, just not always on the public board. This is a great place and it will continue to be the best Oral Cancer resource on the Internet.

Glenn