Hi Gary

It will get better and you will eat proper food again and your mouth and throat will not be sore, you will also regain most of your taste.

You should have been given exercises to do to strengthen your tongue and throat and neck muscles. It is really important that you do these regularly and for the rest of your life. If you dont the muscles involved can lose their elasticity and you could lose the ability to swallow altogether. Buy a sports type steel or aluminium water bottle and take it with you everywhere taking regular sips to moisten your mouth tongue and lips. Aloe vera type drinks that can be got in Health food shops help in soothing the throat, they worked well for me anyway. The dry mouth is permanent but the consistency of the saliva will become more normal with time. Take good care of your teeth, buy a soft toothbrush and use the prescription Duraphat toothpaste 3 times a day. If you have any of the two part mouthwash left over, that you used during radiotherapy use it up until the mouth sores have gone. The tiredness and feeling weird does continue but you will start to get some good days followed by a bad day. Everyone is different but at 6 months some normality started to return. Wishing you well during your recovery. Kim