Like David I had the buzzing and ringing and did loss some high frequency level hearing doing the 3x method.They did do hearing test before and after each treatment. It was agreed by all including me upfront to be aggressive and risk the small odds of hearing loss. I lost some hearing ( I have not noticed) but together with rad appears to have killed the cancer - good trade off. There never seems to be any sense of this stuff.....I had no real discomfort from Cisplatin, no vomiting, etc but had some hearing loss - go figure. The ringing/buzzing almost drove me nuts.

Pain -in the middle I took Advil, at the end some Oxycodone, usually at night. Even with that I had constipation issues, that can be a pain in the ......Take the stool softners


Bill Van Horn-53 ex-smoker, social drinker, Biopsy 8/24, Diagnosed 8/30/07 BOT T2N2-B MX Stage IV. Started treatments 10/1/07. IMRT 35 x, Cisplatin - 3 cycles - completed treatment 11/16/07. CT Scans on 1/15/08 all clear Selective neck dissection 1/28/08. All nodes clear.