Contributing Member (25+ posts) Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 28 | Terry
I had a radical neck dissection back in May and echo whst everyone else says.
It will heal but you will feel numb, the knitting back can be painful but try the usual painkilling drugs, I even had oral morphine at one point. There is still numbness there and had that through my RT.
It slowly comes back and is not painful at all, but thsi week I start physio and already feeling positive about it recovering to some normality.
Steeplechase
SCC Left tonsil removed, T1N2/3 May 2005, left radical neck dissection and wisdom tooth removed, 32 lymph nodes removed, 1 infected. 33 Fractions of RT, 2 doses of Cisplatin and a NG tube for 4 weeks! Treatment ended Mid August 2005.
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