 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | It doesn't sound like you have a G tube to help you get nutrition so I suspect you have to use the lidocaine just to get any calories down. But if the pain is as bad as you say, you may need some other kind of pain medication as well. Are you taking anythinmg for your pain other than the lidocaine rinse?
We all differ in how much pain we have and how long it takes to recover but being in chronic pain makes everything harder and there really is no good reason for it at your stage of recovery they should be prescribing medicine that can control it.
Nelie
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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