Annalisa
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- Sep 20, 2006
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- Reason
- PALS
- Country
- CA
- State
- BC
- City
- North Vancouver
My mom was diagnosed with bulbar ALS in 11/03. She has a lot of problems with excessive saliva and had received radiation for it which was very successful and really the only thing that helped. Now she has more build up of saliva but we are getting another radiation treatment friday to help.
The realy problem now is that she is constantly biting her tounge which is extreemly painful. Her jaw will just lock over the tounge and we need to wedge tounge depressors in to release it. It happens several times a day. Has this ever happened to anyone? Any ideas to help? She is on baclofen & ativan to realax the jaw muscles but it is not stopping the tounge biting.
Any help you can offer would be much appreciated.
Lisa
The realy problem now is that she is constantly biting her tounge which is extreemly painful. Her jaw will just lock over the tounge and we need to wedge tounge depressors in to release it. It happens several times a day. Has this ever happened to anyone? Any ideas to help? She is on baclofen & ativan to realax the jaw muscles but it is not stopping the tounge biting.
Any help you can offer would be much appreciated.
Lisa