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Husband diagnosed with tonsil cancer: looking for tips and support
Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: Apr 4 11:41am | Replies (174)Comment receiving replies
Third day of Rad/Chem Therapy (RCP). Stomach kind of queasy with sour taste in mouth all day. Around noon, took a prescribed ondansetron tablet to help. It helped for a while. Had ginger ale as well. Rad treatment around 2pm. And ringing in the ears started around 4pm, still continuing. Worked on the prescibed swallow exercises. Overall 80 repetitions per day of 1) high pitched "eee", 2) tongue press against roof of mouth, 3) hard swallow, 4) jaw resistance. Did get a negative NavDx report today for a blood draw taken 15 days after surgery. Learned a NavDx blood draw is done as part of the every Monday blood work. Takes about 10 days after to get a result.
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Bless you dearly in your treatments. We (my husband) recently finished our 6.5 year week chemotherapy and daily radiation and NAV testing too.. no results yet definitely been over 10 days, but sure they will arrive soon. I'm so sorry about the ringing in your ears. We empathize deeply and wanted to share with you .. after painful ringing, we met with his oncologist physician who made the decision to reduce Cisplatin chemotherapy regime by 10%, which is apparently a negligible amount, but did reduce then stopped the ringing. I would assume it depends on malignancy and location of the tumor, but just wanted to provide that as an option to ask of your oncologist. God bless you in this journey.