xynobix, I had ethyol most of the time I was having treatment but there was one week (5 days)I went off it because the second chemo was already giving me so much nausea, I couldn't see adding more and neither could the chemo nurses). The last week and 1/2 I was doing one day on/one day off of ethyol.

But I had most of the mucositic spots and sores that I still have in my mouth already by that time. I mainly did Amifostine to eventually be able to have some saliva. I think it's effect on helping mucositis is not so clear in the research. Right now I can't say I notice much of an effect on saliva either, I came here to whine about that actually, but my rad oncologist has told me it doesn't necessarilly come back right away--that I need to give it longer (so far that seems to be his answer to everything).