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@justwow It hurt a lot, but that doesn’t really start until the third week of treatment. I got through it with Tylenol and Gabapentin. Docs prescribed optiates too, but I didn’t think they helped much and I don’t like the “buzz” they produce (never understood their recreational appeal).
All in all I am very pleased with the proton / chemo approach. There’s a reason it’s the frontline treatment for HPV+ SCC.
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Thank you so much. I’m just wondering why they are recommending that I do the surgery maybe it’s because I have two lymph nodes already affected. I don’t know. I think I’m going to schedule a multidisciplinary consult and see if they can help me decide on what’s really best for me. I’m just deathly afraid of losing the ability to hold my grandbabies and I have three of them under two years old. I have 10 in total and they all come for hugs and want me to pick them up and do things with them and I don’t wanna lose that ability.