The radiation treatments will seem like a non-event for the first 2 weeks, give or take. After that, you'll start feeling the effects.

Mouth sores, sore throat, loss of your sense of taste, fatigue, burns on the skin, thick mucous, generally feeling lousy.

It will get worse and worse over the next few weeks, usually hitting it's worst around week 5. For the next three or four weeks, you will continue to feel the full effects of the rad, and then start to improve.

For me, the pain in my mouth and throat were the toughest, second only by the complete loss of the ability to taste anything at all.

You will likely need potent pain relief through much of this period. It is rough, no question. It is doable though. Take it one day ( or one hour, or even one minute) at a time, and you'll make it though O.K.
Wayne


SCC left mandible TIVN0M0 40% of jaw removed, rebuilt using fibula, titanium and tissue from forearm.June 06. 30 IMRT Aug.-Oct. 06