Hi All,

I need your help in figuring out what is going on with my mom.

My mom has been fighting with an extremely sore, swollen tongue for months. It�s been over a year at this point. The tongue is persistently swollen and has a red dot the size of a nickel on it. Her tongue is just too painful for her to take anything in by mouth. It�s so swollen that she has trouble speaking.

She had a second surgery (a mandibulectomy) related to her oral cancer this past June. The Surgeon says she appears to be healing at the surgery site well. We have been to her oncologist and surgeon over and over again. Her oncologist says it does not look like thrush. He�s baffled at what is going on. It�s obvious to me the surgeon does not know what is going on either. He likes to focus on how well the surgery site is healing.

I don�t know what else to do. My mom is in perpetual pain and discomfort.

Has anybody experienced a persistent swollen tongue?

Babsdaughter