What causes the gree phelgm

Is it the Chemo and Rt and is it healing ????

Do people have it for diferent times

David and Susan

Hi Dave and Sue,
unfortunately I still get the green stuff. It sticks in my throat in the night and when I wake up it is like dried snot on the roof of my mouth! Lovely! I swill round with warm water then I can have my cup of tea. It is a year today that I was diagnosed and I finisged treatment in September. I don't know if or when it goes away
Anne

I get the goo too!
Mine gets caught in my throat throughout the day and sometimes i gargle it when i'm trying to talk - GROSS!
I get a hard dried lump in my throat in the morning too.
I thought it was because of the healing too - but apparently not if Anne still gets hers!
Still, it's nothing compared tp the stuff i'd get when i had the tumour up my nose. I wont go into details *lol*

Yuk this is gruesome. Bill (my husband first chemo finished Tues) tells me he gets all kinds of rubbish, (dustbin lids, olds shoes, etc) in multi technicolour when he blows his nose. I just hope this is evidence that the treatment is working.

'scuse me, I would'nt have brought it up (whoops) but you lot mentioned it first.

Angie

Chelle,
I think you and I must be on the same recovery route as I see from your profile you were diagnosed in May last year too.
What a year! Despite all our problems it's good to see the Summer coming with no (hopefully) clouds on the horizon.
I have to have a quick op end of month to sort out the angry scar on my neck. Plastic surgery no less! Should be an absolute breeze after the 9+ hours surgery last time.
Keep smiling
Anne

Anne,
What a year indeed!
It feels great to be taking part in life again instead of just watching everyone else live it!
Good luck with the op this month. Like you said, i'm sure it will be a walk in the park by comparison!
I intend to make the most of this year! (with the factor 50 on the R/T affected skin of course!
All the best,
Michelle

Michelle

If you dont mind me asking were was the Rt given directed to

Mine was from half way up my left ear rear neck down to my shoulder and my throat to the chin

Dave
Dave and Sue

Hi Dave,
My R/T was from the top of my ears on both the left and the right. These covered an area about 2/3 inches towards my cheeks. So i have a big rectangle each side down to my lower jaw. & my neck completely covered down to my shouders on both sides. The bits by my ears were aimed into the nasopharynx, which is the area behind the nose - down to the throat. The neck was treated to cover all the lymph nodes. The exit beam covered the whole of the back of my neck down over my shoulders. Obviously with the white strip down the front where they protected my spine. How has your skin been Dave?

Hi Michelle

Thats a lot of Rt and im feeling sorry for myself today left a post under sorry as i blew off on my wife.

my skins ok been using radiance skin gell from the bristol Cancer Centre

How is your skin now must have been sore

Dave

I took my frustrations out on Amir all the time. I always apologised straight after, but at the time i just couldn't help it! We always take it out on the ones we love. You are entitled to feel sorry for yourself though!

I also used the radience skin gel. My skin stayed good until about week 4 and then it got really red, like bad sunburn. The bits round my ears were ever so sore and cracked. But by week 6 they started to heal.

My skin now isn't too bad. The texture is a little different and it's sensitive to the sun. I've got new freckles on the treated aeas. & the sides of my face are slightly darker to the rest of my skin. Alot of the brown skin came away about 6 weeks ago. IOt looked as though i didn't wash my neck *lol*

Bill goes off one one at the slightest thing. (5 days after first 5 day session of chemo). If he doesnt alter he might not live to r/t!!
*lol*

Bill has what he refers to as froth in his throat that he can not get rid of. It wakes him choking. What causes this?

Angie

Great subject this phelgm!.
I still get the frothy stuff don't know what causes it.Could be lack of saliva. I know sometimes I have to walk away from people while I have a quick gag. Lovely! When I was in the depths of treatment I used to take to bed with me- a bowl, water, tissues and all my medication including syringes etc for my Peg feed for the morning-It took me two trips!
Thank goodness those days have gone for me now.
You will get thru all this be brave
Anne

Ahhh yes the froth! I looked kinda rabid for some time! I'd spit it into tissues every 10minutes or so. Now i don't even get the foam, just a dry mouth.
Angie, for m,e hte froth eased up when i came off my medication but my saliva was replaced by the foam from day 1!
Anne like you i'd have a pile of stuff to take to bed - bowl for froth/phlegm & being sick, tissues, water, syringes, food pump, feed, difflam mouth wash, difflam spray & a syringe of oramorph just incase i woke up in pain!
Talking of the green stuff - my mouth used to be coated in it first thing, some dried on my teeth!
It mostly just trickles down my throat now, or comes down in lumps *cringe*
I'm reminded of Slimer from Ghost Busters!

It sticks to my teeth too! Do you have a problem with lipstick? That usually ends up on my teeth too. I have now bought one of those stay on forever sticks and top up with gloss.
Anne

I usually wear lip gloss, and i get that white slime in the corners of my lips. & Yep it sticks to my teeth aswell! Everyones too polite to tell me either too polite or they just like to giggle about it