I'm on day 16 of 35 radiation treatments. My throat is getting a bit sore. I can only drink Goat's milk but now it acts like it went a bit into my lungs and it starts me into a dry cough that doesn't produce anything. I do get lots of phlegm and thrush. I have a suction machine that helps get a lot of that out. Sometimes in the morning when I am getting this gunk out there is bits of blood. So far nothing is stopping the thrush. So maybe some of this is getting dried in my throat? I would like something to sooth the throat so I can get the Goat's milk down without choking and coughing. I've lost a ton of weight. But reading here that so many had to go about 2 years to get past it all is disconcerning. I've been rearranging and restocking my kitchen for the day I can cook again. I found Ancient Whole Grains to grind myself to get away from the bad flour the US grows. I'm going with a monthly service to get my meats from healthy animals. Luckily, I have enough grocery stores around with organic produce. All this research right now so looking forward to the day I can start cooking again. When does the throat open back up after all the radiation? I also have a holistic doctor alongside this Radiologist and he got me off sugar, onto doing coffee enemas weekly that cleanses the liver that helps the body with the radiation, Mistletoe injections, Helleborus niger injectons and the nebulizer version. There is a good book on it called "Mistletoe and the Emerging Future of Integrative Oncology". Germany and Switzerland use this method intensely. I invested in a live blood microscope and discovered after a Pet scan I lost all my white blood cells but they are coming back slowly. So the radiation is a necessary evil and it will take a lot to recover from it in itself. I also do a lot of IVs at the holistic center like Vit C. The Pet scan immediately caused my ankles to swell which never had I had that. They tell me it is not the radiation but I wonder. So far the best pain meds that work for me is 2 Advil and 1 Tylenol which I was a 3 times a day and down to 1 time a day. But this throat urge to cough when I drink is getting to me. It restricts my intake that I can't afford. Someone wrote Marshmellow Root Tea. I will get that in and try it. I have decided never on Chemo and was confirmed with my holistic doc for radiation but never chemo as my heart rate is too high although blood pressure is always good. How does that work?