"Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: May 2008 Posts: 551 | Jenka,
Don't despair! I finished treatment last August, and I'm still not 100% healed and overall, I've healed incredibly quickly. If your docs are telling you that you'll be fully healed at only 3 months, then you're getting faulty information. Your mouth was under full assault, and those tender taste buds and other tissue need lots of time to recover. Try to be patient and just keep doing what you're doing.
- Margaret
Stage IV SCC lt lateral tongue, surgery 5/19/08 (partial gloss/upper neck dissection left side/radial free flap reconstruction) IMRT w/weekly Cisplatin & Erbitux 6/30/08, PEG 1 6/12/08 - out 7/14 (in abdominal wall, not stomach), PEG 2 7/23/08 - out 11/20/08, Tx done 8/18/08 Second SCC tumor, Stage 1, rt mobile tongue, removed 10/18/2016, right neck dissection 12/9/2016 Third SCC tumor, diagnosed, 4/19/2108, rt submandibular mass, HPV-, IMRT w/ weekly Cisplatin, 5/9 - 6/25/2018, PEG 3 5/31/2018
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