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HPV squamous cell throat cancer: Soft palate isn't working
Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: Mar 25 10:11pm | Replies (13)Comment receiving replies
@gareee31, I expanded the title of your discussion to reflect your question about the soft palate. You might find additional information in these related discussions:
- Flap Not Functioning https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/flap-not-functioning/
- Has anyone experienced a tonsillectomy and soft palate reconstruction? https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/has-anyone-experienced-a-tonsillectomy-and-soft-palate-reconstruction/
How are the sessions with the speech pathologist? Do you have exercises to do daily?
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Yes . My speech therapist which I see weekly gives me exercises to do home to try and strengthen that soft palate..She is also looking into a specialist to fit me with a palatal lift. This is a device that hooks up to your upper teeth like a removable partial plate and has a bulb at the end to lift my lowered soft palate to help swallowing. I also get blisters now and then to my inside upper gums just above my molars that most likely is coming from the radiation almost 3 years ago. Hopefully that will subside.I do get a burning sensation to my soft palate probably because of the hocking up I do to get rid of the mucous that builds up above the palate.