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Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 440 | Does anyone seem to revert backwards when they get an upper respiratory infection? I've noticed everytime I get some nasal drainage from a cold it causes me to gag/cough alot more when trying to swallow food. Am I just weird?lol
Dx 3/27/09 @ 28 years old with High Grade MEC T4N2M0
Elizabeth, 33, mother of 3 girls (4,7, &8yrs old)
3 rds of chemo(Carbo/Taxol)
Rt Mandibulectomy, rt fibular flap,& rt ND with trach, picc,& g-tube.
30 rds of rads with weekly cisplatin
SCANS ALL CLEAR!
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Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 618 | I get that too, so either we are both weird (a definite possibility) or it has something to do with our diminished swallowing ability.
I have to say that I think I do have a diminished swallowing ability. I first thought that it was a saliva issue, but I now think the swallowing muscles just don't do as much as they used to.
Kelly
Male
48, SCC (Soft Palet) Rt.,
Stage 1, T3n0m0,
Dx, 8-09, Start IMRT 35 9-2-09 end 10-21-09
04-20-10 NED
8-11 recurrence, node rt. neck N2b
10-11 33 IMRT w/chemo wkly
3-12-12 PET - residual cancer
4-12 5 treatments with Cyberknife & Erbitux
6-19-12 Pet scan CLEAR
12-3-12 PET - CLEAR
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