What Are You're Experiences With Phlegm?
I am 8 months + post radiation treatment for my throat cancer, but still experiencing non-stop mucus in my sinuses that won't go away and are driving me crazy. Is there a reasonable time frame that I should expect this to go away?
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Thanks for the reply.
I hope things will keep getting better and better for you.
I guess everybody's different. Thank you for the reply.
My larynx surgery and radiation (35) was 20 years ago. Over the last 3 years I have been suffering from scar tissue in my larynx making it hard to swallow especially when lying down. My ENT suggests I take swallowing therapy and I honestly don' t see how that could hlp a lump in my throat.
Any thoughts?
Hi @bluebee and welcome. Swallowing requires the use of approximately fifty small muscles and gravity. Trouble with these damaged and/or aging muscles can begin to make eating difficult. The scar tissue doesn't help either. Believe me, I have been eating carefully and swallowing deliberately for many years post since cancer treatment.
I understand there are some surgical procedures which can rectify swallowing issues but prior to that, therapy can also work wonders when given good instructions and following up on exercise routines. For example, I was told to keep my chin up when swallowing. This was actually a very big help from something so simple. Breath in prior to swallowing was another suggestion to prevent food or liquid inhalation. Remembering to do these things is the hard part.
When we lose a foot we don't stop walking; we just figure out a new way to walk. I don't enjoy being the last one to finish eating. I don't enjoy coughing because I drank something ice cold but that is sometimes the result. We all have our bag of hammers we carry and we just have to figure out how to carry them. Physical therapy is often a helpful way to do that. Good healing.