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Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 6 | This was November I am now on my 4 th bottle of antibiotics plus I now have a messed up thyroid. They doctors are now saying 2 years. I can t even eat regular foods
Mr. K returns to clinic following a
one-month interval during which time he was having a lot of
issues with lower facial swelling and was started on antibiotics
and actually was seen by Dr. L for evaluation of this. He
notes that this facial swelling has continued and he still has a
bit of erythema there. He also notes that with this facial
swelling, he is having a lot of discharge, both below and above
and feels as if he is having a lot of issues with secretions. He
denies any fevers or chills. He has no night sweats. He does
feel that area of swelling is quite hard and has not changed
much, although it may be a little less red than it had been
previous. He has no worsening of his swallowing. He does cough
occasionally after drinking liquids. He continues to take all of
his nutrition by mouth and only uses his PEG tube intermittently
about once a week to flush it. He has no new bowel or bladder
issues. He has no other new complaints on today's visit.
Review of Systems: A complete review of systems was performed,
almost unremarkable except as noted above.
Past Medical History: No medical history beyond his base of
tongue tumor.
3/2008 D/w Stage 4 throat cancer
5/23/2008 Surgery hospital 2 days
6/2008-8/2008 rad. and chemo
3/2013 diag w/ s 4 tongue cancer
6/24/2013 3.8 cm lump repld 70% of tongue j-peg feed tube
6/24/2013-07/22/2013 hosp. 7/22/2013 present hm nurse swallow spec speech thphy
09/03/2013 start rad and chemo
11/08/2013 finished 5 weeks of Radiation 3 chemo treatments and 1 week of Cyber Radiation...mouth and tongue infected and swollen
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Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,293 Likes: 1 | [quote]They doctors are now saying 2 years.[/quote]What does this mean??
Don Male, 57 - Great health except C Dec '12 DX: BOT SCC T2N2bMx, Stage 4a, HPV+, multiple nodes 1 tooth out Jan '13 2nd tooth out Tumor Board -induction TPF (3 cycles), seq CRT 4-6/2013 CRT 70gr 2x35, weekly carbo150 ended 5/29,6/4 All the details, join at http://beatdown.cognacom.com | | | | | Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 559 Likes: 1 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 559 Likes: 1 | Craig - is it time for a 2nd opinion?
Tony, 69, non-smoker, aerobatics pilot, bridge player/teacher, avid dancer (ballroom, latin, swing, country)
09/13 SCC, HPV 16, tonsillectomy, T2N0.
11/13 start rads, no chemo
12/13 taste gone, dry mouth,
02/14 hair slowly returning
05/14 taste the same, dry sinuses, irrigation helps.
01/15 food taste about 60% returned, dry sinuses are worse in winter.
12/20 no more sinus problems, taste pretty good
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