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Joined: May 2009 Posts: 1,412 | I got a tip for you all, don't bite your tongue.  I bit the soup out of my tongue yesterday, and the only side of I can eat on at that. I woke up this morning and it was still hurting. I took a look at it, and if I hadn't of bit my tongue I think I would have freaked. It looks bad. It is bruised underneath my tongue, and blood red spots on the underneath tip of my tongue in the front opposite of where I bit it. I am hoping this goes away in a few days. I had not looked at my tongue in awhile, and hoping this red stuff was no there before. It sure does hurt. Normally when I bite my tongue it doesn't get all this blood shot. I guess the best way to explain it is that the underside of my tongue is all blood shot and so is the underside tip of my tongue. OUCH! I hope I explain it good enough.
Last edited by Brian Hill; 01-24-2012 09:11 PM. Reason: fixed typo
Angelia
31 at Dx.
DX: 4/30/09, 10/21/09 SCC on floor of mouth,
T1NOMO, T2N1M0
TX: 39 IMRT, 8 cisplatin 11/30/09
PET/CT: 11/03/09: Lymph node involvement
PEG/PORT: 11/09
TX end: 02/01/10
PET Scan: 04/05/10 clear
PEG Out: 06/21/10
Biopsy: 12/23/10: fibrosis
HBO: 01/04/11 - ORN
Baby girl born 11-30-12
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Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 5,264 Likes: 5 | Beetn there... Hope you're feeling betted and your tongue less mangled!
Cheryl : Irritation - 2004 BX: 6/2008 : Inflam. BX: 12/10, DX: 12/10 : SCC - LS tongue well dif. T2N1M0. 2/11 hemigloss + recon. : PND - 40 nodes - 39 clear. 3/11 - 5/11 IMRT 33 + cis x2, PEG 3/28/11 - 5/19/11 3 head, 2 chest scans - clear(fingers crossed) HPV-, No smoke, drink, or drugs, Vegan
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Joined: May 2007 Posts: 622 Likes: 1 | I usually use another 4 letter word when that happens to me
18 YEAR SURVIVOR
SCC Tongue (T3N0M0) diag 06/2006.
No evidence of disease 2010
Another PET 12-2014 pre-HBO, still N.E.D.
�Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. It matters that you don't just give up.�
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Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 11 | Thanks for the tip. Here's another. Don't slam the back of your head on a steel cross beam. People may tell you that you are hard headed but that steel will win. I did that at work last week and still have a tender head. | | |
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