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Protecting the Salivary Glands while on Radiation

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  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 CSN Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #22
    Amifostine Here Please...
    As P51 said....

    I was prescribed it mainly for controlling the thick phlegm and mucusous, plus some possibly future salivary retention.

    I believe it worked out for me...three years out and I have 95% saliva and 100% taste.

    Side effects were itchy welts at the injection site. Eventually after 32 of the 35 prescribed, I started having bad fevers....102.7.

    Stopped the Amifostine, fevers stopped and finished my last three rads.

    I'd do it again though....damn, did I say that..., I hope I never have to do this stuff again. It's all definitely a rough diet for sure.

    JG
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