Has anyone ever had cancer of the nose and throat&is in remission,but with many promblems(stomac,dry mouth)?

Question

You end up with not being able to taste anything,dry mouth,sore throat and never hungery.How long do they leave this feeding tube in you????

Answer 1

i had a freind whom had this and hes doing really well~~~~~i will keep you tucked in my deepest prayers

Answer 2

Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.

Answer 3

You need to see a speech pathologist to have your chewing and swallowing assessed. S/he can determine whether or not you can wean from the feeding tube by doing a live radiographic video ("videofluorography") of your mouth and throat when you take in thin/thick liquids, puree, and something chewy (I used bagels because they are the same basic texture as meat). During the test, it can be determined if you have adequate airway protection when you swallow ("Aspiration" is when swallowed material enters the airway). It can also show if you will be able to swallow enough food and liquid in order to maintain adequate nutrition. Different positions and manipulation of textures can be tried to see if any combination of "tricks" can make swallowing easier.
Ask your ENT for a referral.

Answer 4

My mother in law went through this too. The dry mouth and not being able to drink water feeling last about a year. She had chemotherapy and radiation. This happened over five years ago and she is doing great now.
She can drink and eat and her taste has returned. She says she puts the experience in the category 'a small price to pay'.

Hope you feel better really soon. Take care of yourself.

Answer 5

I don't know , I guess it would be different for everyone . I just wanted you to know that I'm praying for you too ! Go to Natural Cures.com maybe something there as well as nutritional stuff.

Answer 6

never been there ............but God Bless you I will be praying for you....