Sandy

In your case, the "worst" may never even happen. I say that because while it is true that the full effects of radiation don't peak until TX is over, they tend to be amplifications of what has gone before. I admit to being one of the skeptical ones in reading your posts, but if you have not had to take any pain pills at all, then you must be doing well. For me, the dry mouth got even more arid, the mucous thicker, the sores more plentiful and painful, the nausea and fatigue greater. But they had been happening all along - it was more a matter of degree. I had to escalate my pain meds also.
what could suddenly go bad if you don't watch it is your "sunburned neck"- keep close tabs on it. There are specific creams and lotions for radiation burns that can be prescribed.
Taste and appetite sink to new lows for most everybody.
So it sounds like you are doing great and there is no mandatory requirement that everyone has to sink to new lows, it just happens to most. Wishing you the best of success and that you sail through this as unscathed as possible.
charm