ENT Visit - A Prayer Would Help

HobbsDoggy
HobbsDoggy Member Posts: 276
in Head and Neck Cancer #1

I am still stuggling with a hoarse voice and my chemo doc saying a week ago it could be a tumor.  Thanks for all of your replies to my post about my doc's off the cuff comment about a tumor.  I think he thought; not likely, but just his style.  Anyway that and my continuing hoarse voice four and a half months out of treatment I am a little afraid, not terriffied.  I know some or maybe all of you know the fear of a check up.  Support of people who have been though this is so important.

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  • CivilMatt
    CivilMatt Member Posts: 4,724 Member
    #2
    prayers

    HobbsDoggy,

    I am 13 months out and I still struggle with my voice.  I don’t know what possessed your doctor to say what he did, but I am hoping he is wrong and you are just experiencing normal healing.

    Matt

  • D Lewis
    D Lewis Member Posts: 1,581 Member
    #3
    Almost three years out

    Still hoarse, a lot of the time.  Also, my ENT told me I could expect to have a sore throat most of the time,owing to the lack of saliva and other issues.  That comment took a lot of the pressure off, as I'm not so upset every time I have a sore throat.  I can take it in stride.

    Deb

  • peggylulu
    peggylulu Member Posts: 375
    #4
    I am still

    hoarse and I am 6 months out of Rads . I have worried about it the whole time and every time I have asked my Ro and ENT they have said it is caused from Radiation . I had another surgery today and the ENT checked out my vocal cords while I was out and did a biopsy just to be on the safe side but he said they looked good to him.

    Peggy 

  • Tim6003
    Tim6003 Member Posts: 1,514 Member
    #5
    peggylulu said:

    I am still

    hoarse and I am 6 months out of Rads . I have worried about it the whole time and every time I have asked my Ro and ENT they have said it is caused from Radiation . I had another surgery today and the ENT checked out my vocal cords while I was out and did a biopsy just to be on the safe side but he said they looked good to him.

    Peggy 

    Said that prayer for you .... :_)

    Keep us posted ....

     

    Tim

  • yensid683
    yensid683 Member Posts: 349
    #6
    my voice is hoarse as well

    at 9 months out from rads, but it is improving.  Combinations of the scarring from rads, lack of saliva, overuse (I spend a lot of time talking to people with work) all conspire to keep me sounding somewhat like a frog at times.

    It is getting better though.

     

    Remember it is not cancer until someone says it is cancer!

  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #7
    Look Out.......

    Prayers flying your way....

    JG

  • Billie67
    Billie67 Member Posts: 898
    #8
    Skiffin16 said:

    Look Out.......

    Prayers flying your way....

    JG

    9 months out and hoarse too
    I think it's kind of crazy that your dr would say that. Being hoarse is actually very common after H&N treatment. I really think, and pray that you will get good news. Please keep us posted.
    Billie
  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #9
    Billie67 said:

    9 months out and hoarse too
    I think it's kind of crazy that your dr would say that. Being hoarse is actually very common after H&N treatment. I really think, and pray that you will get good news. Please keep us posted.
    Billie

    Pony Up...

    Awww, and I just think of you as a pony.... susel

    JH

  • ditto1
    ditto1 Member Posts: 660
    #10
    Skiffin16 said:

    Pony Up...

    Awww, and I just think of you as a pony.... susel

    JH

    A Horse of Course

    9 months out voice change, a little horse after to much talking as well.  After your Doc confirms no tumor in your best horse voice, FIRE HIM.

  • peggylulu
    peggylulu Member Posts: 375
    #11
    ditto1 said:

    A Horse of Course

    9 months out voice change, a little horse after to much talking as well.  After your Doc confirms no tumor in your best horse voice, FIRE HIM.

    I agree

    With Ditto1 !! Lol John ! It took me a minute ! duh

    Peggy

  • Duggie88
    Duggie88 Member Posts: 760 Member
    #12
    Hobbs

    I am 3 years out and people are telling me they still see changes in my voice. Every now and then I start thinking my voice is getting worse which I chalk up to a  phsychological defect in my brain. I think the doc is just covering all his bases. You have earned the right to be afraid but in the same breath I want to tell you to stay positive, your only four months out of treatment. After all the Doctor has a??? ..................you guessed it...............a Practice.........which means he isn't perfect and I believe he just proved that here.

     

          Jeff

  • hwt
    hwt Member Posts: 2,328 Member
    #13
    Duggie88 said:

    Hobbs

    I am 3 years out and people are telling me they still see changes in my voice. Every now and then I start thinking my voice is getting worse which I chalk up to a  phsychological defect in my brain. I think the doc is just covering all his bases. You have earned the right to be afraid but in the same breath I want to tell you to stay positive, your only four months out of treatment. After all the Doctor has a??? ..................you guessed it...............a Practice.........which means he isn't perfect and I believe he just proved that here.

     

          Jeff

    Prayers

    Prayers coming your way from the Midwest. I am a year post tx and have occasions where my voice fades or cracks, when it does, things cross my mind but nothing bad has come of it 

  • HobbsDoggy
    HobbsDoggy Member Posts: 276
    #14
    Many Many Thanks

    All your good wishes and payers did the trick.  Nothing showed up as cancer or anything close to that.  The ENT doc said smooth going for now and will see me monthly for one year.  He agrees that a hoarse voice is just part of the deal for many of us and nothing to be concerned about in and of itself.  I am going to tell my oncologist that he sucks as far as bedside manner goes.  A technically good doc, but a jerk when it comes to dealing with how is paitents will feel.

    Thanks again, all of you are great!

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