 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Michelle,
She's tougher than I was!!!!
I had moderately severe pain from my eustacian tubes being burned out and until they healed, I had fluid build ups. Morphine acts in 30 minutes and is much more powerful than Vicodin which is just a medium strength pain releiver. I was on the patch fot almost 2 months post Tx.
She's taking a big risk excercizing in a gym. Those places are crawling with germs, bacteria and fungus and her immune system will be tore up for some time. I didn't go to public places for several months post Tx. Not even to church on Sunday.
The radiation also does a number on the muscles in the radiation field but it took a couple of years before that caught up with me.
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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