Sweetblood

Dav1965
Dav1965 Member Posts: 132
in Head and Neck Cancer #1
If you do not mind me asking why does your tongue hurt. They removed and replaced 95% of my tongue with part of my thigh and it is the only thing that does not hurt. Hope it gets better for you. David

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  • lindab4
    lindab4 Member Posts: 8
    #2
    sore tongue
    Hi,
    In my case it hurts because in addition to the surgury I had radiation and the radiation has burnt it and it has not recovered yet. It stings in response to trying to eat some foods.
    Also, extremly sensitive to mint as in toothpaste or mouthwash or gum. Even alcohol free mouthwash is more than I can handle.

    Linda

    I am new and I don't know whether I am responding the right way. Should I be clicking reply on your message or post comment.

    Thanks
  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #3
    lindab4 said:

    sore tongue
    Hi,
    In my case it hurts because in addition to the surgury I had radiation and the radiation has burnt it and it has not recovered yet. It stings in response to trying to eat some foods.
    Also, extremly sensitive to mint as in toothpaste or mouthwash or gum. Even alcohol free mouthwash is more than I can handle.

    Linda

    I am new and I don't know whether I am responding the right way. Should I be clicking reply on your message or post comment.

    Thanks

    Linda~
    Welcome to the forum, lots of info and great people on here....

    You can reply any way you like LOL....if it's a big post and you want to respond to someone else's post, reply to their post. If you want it to go to the very bottom of the list of posts, reply to that first post on the page.

    Best,
    John
  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 Member Posts: 3,228
    #4
    Why does my tongue hurt?
    I dunno why it still hurts, but it does. I only had 30 rads. I don't know if having no left salivary gland going in made it worse or not. My mouth was a trainwreck, my docs said pretty much the worst they'd ever seen with rads side effects. Also I have a genetic blood disorder as well, and that might be why I had a harder time with radiation and why my recovery was slower, and why I'm not like I was before all this mess.

    My tongue feels scalded all the time, like I just burned it on some scalding hot coffee. It's also scarred on the left side. I cannot stick my tongue out, roll my R's, whitsle, roll my tongue, or talk like I used to. It is still very sensitive to salt, pepper, toothpaste, mint, alcohol....

    There was improvement the first year as far as my mouth healing, but I feel like it has felt the same for this whole last year. About a 2/3 on a pain scale of 1 - 10 everyday.

    I hope one day it won't hurt anymore, too. I am glad that yours doesn't hurt after what you have been through. I had a biopsy under my tongue, and that hurt. I cannot imagine what you went thru.

    Blessings,

    Sweets

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