How do you manage , after treatment i only seem to be on this site whingeing and moaning about something , i don't think i am any help to any one else out there unless they search like i do for various problems , anyway i am now 7 weeks out of treatment and have forced myself to eat as normal as possible for the past 3 weeks so i have not used the peg i lost three and a half stone during treatment and have put about 10 lbs back on do you ever get back to your normal weight and how long does it take ?. i still get a bit of mucus now and then usually late at night but i can cope with it, stopped taking the pain killers (i was worried that i would become addicted to morphine as i liked the effects even though it did not ease the pain ) my voice has altered i always had a very deep voice now its even deeper which i find worrying, (is the cancer spreading ) and where they gave me some extra heavy doses of radiation to destroy the cancer in a lymph node my tongue is still sore and bleeds now and then i worry about this as well , i find now that it is now harder to cope with cancer than when i was going through the treatment and i am making my wife life a misery with the what if questions , she is sick of hearing me say do you think because my voice is deeper its a bad sign ? and look at my tongue, i know i should not do this but i cannot stop myself i also have no saliva at all does this ever come back ? sorry to appear very negative but this sight has been very helpful in the past so i lean on it again , just to end i would like to thank Cookey for all her help i was so sorry to here of her loss, it brought it all home to me as i believe i am very much like Robin,as my wife says you must be getting better as you can now drink again (only Guinness in moderation ) and long for a cigarette ( i gave up when i found i had cancer ) well god bye for now i see my consultant in 2 days time and will ask him these questions and let you know the answers he gives (i also hope he will give me a date for peg removal .