Surviving Oral Cancer - Melissa's Story
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Many Heartland Dental supported doctors include oral cancer screenings as part of their regular oral care. As #OralCancerAwarenessMonth comes to a close, we are sharing the story of how impactful these screenings can be through the eyes of Melissa, a patient at Tillery Family Dental. Thank you Dr. Tillery and Courtney and thank you Melissa for sharing your story.
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I just had a tongue biopsy - no one told me how incredibly painful it would be for weeks afterwards. But, like you, I have an amazing dentist. So grateful you got the help you needed and are healed !!!
I just had a tongue biopsy about 2 weeks ago as well, and I agree with you that it is extremely sore when they put the needle into your tongue to freeze it.. It was horrible and so sore as they did it 3 times the worst experience I have had with pain, then they cut a chunk out in the middle of my tongue, then stiched it up. It was sore for about a day or 2, then OK, but I had nystatin and a spray to use 4x daily. My stitches never dissolved but came out after 2 weeks when I are sonething
I am still waiting on my results that they said could take up to 8-12 weeks. I'm nervous and scared, but what will be will be 😢 I'm Staying positive 🙏
@@mdow1716are you okay. Hope so.
OMGOSH!! I just had the same as you yesterday!! He gave me 2 days worth of pain meds!! He took a good 2 inches from the left side of my tongue!! 😢. I’ll know in a week.
How are you doing?!
@@mdow1716how are you now?!
Plus I also have chronic TMD and can only hold my mouth open for about two minutes without pain By the time he stitched it, I was going nuts. I wanted to yank him out of my mouth! The stitches were so long! It was more like surgery not a biopsy! 😢
Good info. Thank you Melissa for sharing it with us. 👍🙏
This is such a beautiful testimony!! Thank you for sharing!! Glory To God The Most High!! Thank you to wonderful all the healthcare workers that aid humanity. My mother is in recovery and this testimony gives me so much hope. I told her she is a testimony & must share once she’s able. Thank you again!!
My hygienist looks with a light all around my mouth, not only under or at the sides of my tongue. Oral cancer can be anywhere in the mouth, though it’s usually found on the sides of the tongue or under it.
You had good dentist we unfortunately didn’t they never gave him a cancer screening my husband felt bad and then took himself to an er. We start treatment next week. Thank you for sharing
What was her cancer caused from?
Good luck, my partner just got diagnosed, he had seen a dentist one week prior and they did NOT notice anything under his tongue. He had a mass but no one commented on that.
Thank you for sharing Melissa!
God be with her 🙏🏾
Excellent information… thank you🇨🇦
Hope you’re still doing well
Gracias ❤
What grey lines? What did they look like. No one has helped me or done a biopsy. I need one.
My God 😮
Those with oral cancer: were any of you smokers only in your 20s/teens?
Yes, but that’s not what caused my cancer. I quit when I was 21 (started at 16), and my cancer was diagnosed when I was 27. In My case (and in some other woman with the same circumstances), I believe my pregnancy triggered my cancer. The change in my hormones. My cancer came out while I was pregnant with my son. Why it came back in 2020, that’s a good question. Again could be hormone related (menopause). But it’s just all too coincidental for me.
Another question: is a tongue transplant possible?
No
Yes...do you want a cow tongue or pig tongue?
Were you a smoker? Did you quit?
Smoking cause all cancer
Not all the time. How many reports have we heard, of people who smoke a lot, daily...and they die of something else that's not a cancer?
Oral sex with a person who has HPV