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@dragonfire You know what helped me the the mouth issues? My wife read somewhere on one of our pages of literature that L-Glutamine Powder mouth wash helps. So, she found Now Sports L-Glutamine Powder on Amazon. I used a teaspoon in a 8 oz glass with warm water and gargled. That really helped I believe. Now I'm adding it to my smoothie's. I also drank warm Green Tea in the mornings. Then through out the day I gargled with salt water and Baking Soda and water. I think it helped the healing and breaking up the thick mucous. Dry mouth was and still is a big pain in the ass, but it's getting better. The radiation fibrosis is a pain as well. I'm constantly moving my neck around trying to loosen that up. I'm going to beat this and I'm going to get back to normal as fast as I can. If you have a Chinese Food place near you order some egg soup, but get back to eating despite it has no taste, or it tastes different than you're used to. Eat it anyway. My wife keeps telling me to have patience and allow yourself time to heal, but I'm not a patient man.

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I am NOT a patient man for sure. I like the egg soup idea a lot. Everyone says be patient but going through this hell since August I don't have patience. The tongue pain just sucks. I found some neck exercises online which helped my neck. I got through a baked potato and a can of Campbell's vegetable beef and that was a major improvement. I know these are baby steps but better than no steps.