Hi

I finished treatment for throat cancer five years ago. It was a 36 session course of proton beam therapy to the left side of my neck. I had no earache at all in that five years up to February this year when I started with earache which has got gradually worse and is now excruciating. i’m taking paracetamol and one ibuprofen a day but this is not enough now to control the pain. I’ve tried Co-Codamol and this doesn’t work. I’m awake every night with it and it’s wearing me down and making me very depressed. I can’t believe that I’ve got this five years later but nobody seems to be particularly bothered. I’ve seen so many doctors about it and nobody can tell me whether this will ever stop or if I will have it for all my life, which I don’t think I could cope with. Has anybody else had these late effects from radiotherapy or am I the only one on this planet to get this earache?