 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Hi Gordon,
Welcome to the site. I am a little over two weeks out myself and am experiencing a lot of the same things. I definitely got worse after radiation was over and, like you, I am waiting to turn the corner. I am subsisting on liquid foods for now and they don't taste very good but it's either that or starvation since I didn't get a stomach tube.
The wierd taste is probably normal.
I haven't had any throat swelling problems but then again, I didn't have surgery -just rad and chemo.
Your feeding tube shouldn't be hurting. Call your doctor.
If you had IMRT radiation you will get some salivary function back.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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