I am at 26/33 rads, finally sores and lesions started to appear on the tongue amongst other places. [It is not an infection, I just came off a couple of days of diflucan]
Basically within one day, the ability (desire) to talk and eat normally went out the window. Today, I tried some Lidocaine oral topical solution 2%. You mix this with some water and swish it around. Talking is now not a problem and eating should be ok as well again.
I previously tried some oramagic also with Lidocaine, but that did not work at all. It may be that my sample was too old.

Anyway, I thought that it may be worthwhile to point out again. I believe that this was already brought up in this forum. Also, if the viscous lidocaine provides relief it makes (to me) a lot more sense than heavy ocyocodone or morphine dosages.


Markus


Partial glossectomy (25%) anterior tongue. 4/6/07/. IMRT start @5/24/07 (3x) Erbitux start/end@ 5/24/07. IMRT wider field (30x) start 6/5/07. Weekly cisplatin (2x30mg/m2), then weekly carbo- (5x180mg/m2). End of Tx 19 July 07.