Thrush and choking on mucus here!

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  • Kimba1505
    Kimba1505 Member Posts: 557
    #22
    charles55 said:

    getting over thrush
    Mike, thrush is a fungal(yeast)growth, usually on the tongue, but it can progress to the esophagus. There is a vaginal form of it, but that is a whole other story. It might hurt like heck to brush your tongue, but it shouldn't aggravate having thrush. However, you can't mechanically brush it away. I don't know if there is any one answer for how long it takes to cure it, but when you take oral meds for it, you usually are on them for 14 days.

    I swished with Miracle Mouthwash a couple of times per day for many weeks and managed to avoid thrush because my oncologist put the fear of God into me about it ahead of time. And my mouth was so sore that I welcomed the lidocaine part of it. If my tongue could have, it would have jumped out of my mouth and ran away.

    I think it is evil that we have to put up with it while we are already dealing with cancer treatment.

    Mike and Dragon
    Mike,
    The recovering nerves from you surgeries will/can give you pain for a long time. Mark is almost 4 months post surgery and 6 weeks post chemo rad, and his pain today is primarily still from surgery. Neck stiffness, lymphodema, and still healing nerve ends.

    Dragon, Cisplatin is the drug that can cause hearing loss. Hopefully you had a hearing test before you started to get a baseline hearing level, and then will be tested after each dose. Mark was taken off cisplatin after one dose due to hearing loss. Greg53 was taken off after his second dose. Some people get through cisplatin with no hearing loss issues at all.

    Keep going...one day at time...you too will be writing about being weeks and months out.
    Kim
  • luv4lacrosse
    luv4lacrosse Member Posts: 1,410 Member
    #23
    Kimba1505 said:

    Mike and Dragon
    Mike,
    The recovering nerves from you surgeries will/can give you pain for a long time. Mark is almost 4 months post surgery and 6 weeks post chemo rad, and his pain today is primarily still from surgery. Neck stiffness, lymphodema, and still healing nerve ends.

    Dragon, Cisplatin is the drug that can cause hearing loss. Hopefully you had a hearing test before you started to get a baseline hearing level, and then will be tested after each dose. Mark was taken off cisplatin after one dose due to hearing loss. Greg53 was taken off after his second dose. Some people get through cisplatin with no hearing loss issues at all.

    Keep going...one day at time...you too will be writing about being weeks and months out.
    Kim

    HEARING LOSS
    I go to see my Chemo Doc. for the first time later today. I will mention the baseline hearing test and the side effects expected from what ever drug they choose for me.

    As for the pain, lately my lower teeth on the right side have been hurting more than anything else. Other times it may be ear pain and other times it may be a very sore throat.

    Is any of this pain thrush related or more just the side effects from both of my surgeries?

    My tongue does not hurt allot, but is more tingly than anything else. I have real good mobility of my tongue and can even open my mouth just about as wide as normal.

    BEST!!

    Mike
  • Dragons7-7-2010
    Dragons7-7-2010 Member Posts: 79
    #24
    Kimba1505 said:

    Mike and Dragon
    Mike,
    The recovering nerves from you surgeries will/can give you pain for a long time. Mark is almost 4 months post surgery and 6 weeks post chemo rad, and his pain today is primarily still from surgery. Neck stiffness, lymphodema, and still healing nerve ends.

    Dragon, Cisplatin is the drug that can cause hearing loss. Hopefully you had a hearing test before you started to get a baseline hearing level, and then will be tested after each dose. Mark was taken off cisplatin after one dose due to hearing loss. Greg53 was taken off after his second dose. Some people get through cisplatin with no hearing loss issues at all.

    Keep going...one day at time...you too will be writing about being weeks and months out.
    Kim

    thanks all
    Kim thanks,

    yes they did the baseline hearing test so that was a positive. I learned i already had slight hearing loss right ear for high pitched sounds, they said I would never have known otherwise as audiologists don't routinely test for some sounds but with the chemo they did the full batter.

    And I forget who posted it but yes it is unfair that we have to deal with mouth pain / thrush when we are dealing with everything else. My tongue also wants to run away and my lips are trying as they are swollen, chapped, peeling and bleeding.

    Hopefully doctor will have good suggestions as I leave to meet him in an hour.

    Here to us all - as kim stated KEEP GOING ONE DAY AT TIME MOMENT BY MOMENT....
    THIS TOO SHALL PASS AND GOD WILLING WE WILL ALL COME OUT STRONGER BETTER HUMANS FOR IT.

    Eileen Cibil

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