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Post Treatment Questions: low RBC and dealing with throat pain
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Hello @kbates624 and welcome to our Head and Neck group.
Having pain from surgery and more so from radiation therapy is common but usually not to the extent you described. It looks like you are doing what you can. My only advice is to weigh each week against the previous week to gage if improvement in recovery is happening and is pain getting better to manage. If not, consult his doctors as pain is one area that medicine should be able to control.
The fight your husband is in will likely be the most trying time of his life. It is a difficult battle that must and will be won. Let’s see whom else jumps in here with an idea or two. Best of healing to him.
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Hi again, so we have been encouraged by my husband's ENT surgeon, (we have decided that we no longer what to work with his current oncologist for various reasons) so his ENT surgeon has stepped up to the plate to lead his recovery) to seek out possible other alternative treatments that are not offered here in Hawaii (the resources are extremely limited including medical oncologists!) We will be traveling to Sacramento where we lived for 32 years prior to moving back to Hawaii and seeing an ENT surgeon at UCD Med Ctr. There is a possibility he may want to consider do a debridement on his throat to remove any necrotic tissue. I am nervous that this maybe something that will need to be considered and he is barely started healing, Has anyone had a debridement done?
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I went through the same. I told my radiologist at 6 months “ thank you for the perpetual strep throat” she understood.
Let your husband know that he will absolutely get better. For me the worst part of treatment was the 6-8 months post treatment. I am just over a year out. I am enjoying food a bit more and am pain free and eating much healthier than pre cancer.