| Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Hi Kiba01,
Did you have XRT or IMRT? If you had IMRT you should have some normal saliva at 12 months. I don't eat as much as I used to (which is a good thing) Almost ALL Americans eat too much anyway. I does take me a little longer. I am always the last one finished (my dad used to be the slow eater). I am getting my muscle tone back after a year and doing more physical things all the time. I did have a fair amount of fatigue the first year (that's why the govt. awards disability claims to cancer patients). I left thirty lbs. behind and that's ok with me. My food preferences have changed a little. I don't like dry things like potato chips, cookies and breads that much anymore. I prefer cream sauces over tomato sauces.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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