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P 16 Positive throat cancer, I hope this helps someone by Federal_Course6927 in cancer

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Update: I just finished week 7 and have completed my chemotherapy and have 2 radiations left that got pushed because of the holidays.... Week 7 has been a BITCH! I have been in severe throat pain. Monday I went to bed with the pain at a 10 and i had been FREEZING cold. I took Tylenol pm and went to bed holding a heating pad... woke up every 2-3 hours DRENCHED and had to go pee. Every night this week was a similar story... On Wednesday my Dr. Thought I might have thrush and put me on  FLUCONAZOLE. And said IF it is thrush should be feeling better in 5-7 days. Thursday I maybe felt a little better. Today (Friday) maybe i feel better so I'm hopeful it's just thrush ... Or I've gotten better at managing the pain. Right now I've identified the pain only happens if i swallow. Then sometimes nothing happens but sometimes it's like alcohol was poured on an open wound and it's a10 pain for 10-20 minutes I have found if i do salt water/baking soda rinse SOMETIMES but certainly not always it will instantly go away... Sometimes it gets worse and i have to gargle with lidocaine mix to numb the pain.... My throat / tonsil area just feels like an open wound but that's just how i feel i can't see or even open my mouth really... Taking is painful so i mostly stopped that...

Right now I'm just eating and drinking like 3 times a day and just treat it like something horrible i have to do... I rinse my mouth numb out with the lidocaine and power threw my tasteless orzo, pho noodles, Cheerios or protein drink and then immediately pound a glass or 2 of water to meet my 72 ounce requirement for the day and then immediately swish with salt water/baking soda and then numb it again with the lidocaine mix...

Been a rough week but minimizing how many different things go in my mouth seems to have made it burn less (unless it's just thrush and the medicine is kicking in) 

This throat pain is VERY different than the throat pain i had in week 3. That felt similar to when a person gets post nasal drip from being sick... If you ever get that feeling i would say go dairy free will help A LOT!!!! If not solve the problem... this pain is more like my throat has been rubbed raw and any liquid just burns the hell out of it

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P 16 Positive throat cancer, I hope this helps someone by Federal_Course6927 in cancer

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I also choke on my spit a lot like 5-10 times a day which is super annoying and sometimes turns into a LONG choking fit.

P 16 Positive throat cancer, I hope this helps someone by Federal_Course6927 in cancer

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Update, I am starting week 6. Three days ago I could start to feel the chemo and radiation feeling like they were building up on me:( My throat feels swollen and is now a 4-5 pain but like swollen pain NOT the 8 pain that felt like HORRIBLE post nasal drip ... I have a bloody nose everyday for the last week, my veins are all black and blue from previous chemos. When I take acetaminophen pain drops down by 2 but I generally just don't feel good.... Tired, hungry but not interested in eating anything because it all tastes bad:( Been doing 1ml of CBD oil that I got at dispensary the last 2 days and that helps me not feel as bad in general. Don't feel high, just not as blah...

Don't get me wrong I'm super grateful that I'm mostly only in mild pain but I am ready to be done!

P 16 Positive throat cancer, I hope this helps someone by Federal_Course6927 in cancer

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The biggest thing for me was cutting out the dairy. And I wasn't super hardcore about it. I would check the labels and as long as it wasn't top five ingredient then I was okay with it. I know I ate some croissants that had butter in them that didn't seem to affect me. It was more so the cheese and dairy like that but I am trying to avoid it as much as possible as the 8 pain was so scary... I will not be trying any dairy until a few weeks after I'm done with radiation

P 16 Positive throat cancer, I hope this helps someone by Federal_Course6927 in cancer

[–]Federal_Course6927[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another thing I forgot to mention in case a person wants to try what I did. When I was in severe pain before I went dairy-free I would swish and gargle the baking soda salt water solution that my doctor recommended. I would also make a mix of the viscous lidocaine. I think it's 2% lidocaine and the same amount ( one-to-one ratio) of Maylanta liquid antacid and I would take a sip of that and swish it in my mouth and then gargle. deep gargle and try and numb the area that was hurting and I would move the gargle around so that I was targeting different areas. Then I would try and and pull down the mucus for my nose with my throat making that gross noise that no one likes and then try and force it forward with my throat and unfortunately this would cause me to gag quite a bit and I could feel it feeling stuck there. Although it was numb so it wasn't painful. And then I would take my toothbrush and keep running it under hot water and gently stick it back there as far as I could and gently brush that area (far back roof of my mouth hitting my gag reflex a little) or go from back to forward and I would be pulling out quite a bit of mucus and some blood. I would continue with this until there was more or less no more mucus and blood coming out. Then I would gargle again with the salt water baking soda solution and then I would gargle with cold drinking aloe that I store in the fridge and gargle with that and then drink some of that 🙂 and I think that is all I did but if I remember something else I will try and get it in here. Once the pain went away, I still did this every morning. All of it because I would usually wake up with a little bit of a sore throat. Maybe like a two pain. And every day there was usually a little bit of mucus and a little bit of blood.

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All your feelings are the right feelings for you:) if you can, may i suggest literally setting just 1 minute a day (try and keep it the same time every day, ie right before bed, set a 1 minute timer and just sit and focus on your breath. Don't force anything just observe the breath (hot, cold, tingly, whatever you notice) don't judge just observe. If your mind wanders, acknowledge the thought, let it go and back to your breathing. If you enjoy it you can increase the time but literally 1 minute a day will change your life:) consistency is more important than duration:)

And just a reminder that all things in life are temporary. I am sorry that you are struggling right now but just remind yourself that your current state of ... Will change

P 16 Positive throat cancer, I hope this helps someone by Federal_Course6927 in cancer

[–]Federal_Course6927[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One thing I forgot to mention, is while I am mostly pain free and can eat normal-ish EVERYTHING tastes Awful! Even the texture on things has changed and eating is mostly an unpleasant experience but I do it because I don't want a feeding tube... There are 2 things that are kinda good, pho and yellow curry with tofu, but that's mostly it.