I’m really not sure when my intolerable pain stopped because I was on some hardcore pain medication. I just had the feeling that I needed to end the pain medication. So after I was off my pain medication I absolutely still had pain, especially when I talked, drank fluids but it was tolerable.
BTW, my food was through my feeding tube for nearly a year and then after that I ate oatmeal 3 times a day for about a year!
Nothing helped for my dry mouth other than brushing my teeth several times per day.
MOJO

Hi nancy101,
I had 35 rounds (7 weeks) of Photon radiation for a total of 70Gy and 3 rounds of cisplatin chemo for tonsil cancer back in 2008 but no surgery and I did research then and found in an England Journal of Medicine that honey could help soothe the throat pain from the mouth sores/ulcers you will get. I did shots of real honey not the ones you find in your local grocery store which most all are synthetic and don’t have the same benefits. It definitely took some of the edge off for me.

I would only use Manuka honey which you can find on Amazon that scores at least UMF 15+ and MGO rating of 500+ are considered potent enough for medicinal use- UMF ranges from 10 to 25, the higher the rating, the more potent the benefits are, and of course, the more expensive, the honey. In addition, I heard very good things about Red Light therapy, which uses infrared light from a wand in the throat has worked well for many.

Hope this helps and good luck on your journey.