Hello @cancergotme2 Welcome to the Head and Neck group although one would think you would rather be anywhere else but here.
With the treatments we all go through, rarely are two patients alike in course, response, overall health and so forth. However, throat pain is pretty common from the treatments, the experience certainly varies patient to patient. There are ways to help with this.
This is a very difficult fight you have found yourself in. It is likely the most difficult battle of your life. It is not however impossible, just difficult and for some, very difficult. It is normal-life halting. It is social-calendar cancelling. It can be financially altering and so forth. Surrender is not an option. As Churchill said, "If you're going through hell, keep going."
I and most everyone who follows this H&N feed have been down your road as a patient, going through this rough time, and coming out the other side to enjoy life. I can answer many of your questions. I can listen to your complaints. You can read many of the discussions over the past years here. While you might wish to comment or question on some of the older posts remember, many patients have healed and moved on, wishing not to remember this experience and therefore likely will not respond in kind. It is very understandable. Others like myself offer up our experience as perhaps a thought that we can help someone like you through the coming weeks, months, and yes sometimes years. Perhaps someday you might wish to do the same.
Please don't hesitate to ask, either by a comment on a discussion or better yet, start your own discussion with a question or three where we will see who can help you out a bit on this journey. In the meantime, Great-uncle Winston also was known for one word, "Courage!"