Karen,

My sister is 3 weeks out from having completed 35 IMRT's and 7 cisplatin. She is also having pain, mostly tightening of the neck (scar tissue from radical neck dissection, seems to be in the 1 to 2 range all the time and when it escalates to a 4 to 5 she will take 1.5 ml of morphine, it's fairly fast acting. She also uses the fentynyl patch (25 mg) replacing every 3 days. It's important to get the pain under control before it escalates too high, otherwise takes a long time to feel relief and sometimes requires a higher dosage of med. My sister didn't like taking drugs before this whole ordeal started, but has learned not to let the pain get away from her, good pain management can make a difference. Your dad needs to heal, so getting relief from the pain is important.