My Mother's Parotid tumour in 2010 was about the size of a golf ball. For four years I begged Doctors to look at it. They refused saying they couldn't see an issue. In all that time I watched it growing. Maybe being her daughter I had a connection no one else had. I am so grateful that finally her Specialist, a Professor of Rheumatology finally listened too me. Without him, nothing would have been done and she would have died an agonizing death. It was malignant and had impacted around the facial nerve which required the facial nerve in total, being removed. There was no question with my Mother's case, it had too be removed for any chance of her remaining days being relatively pain free. Her Radiation Oncologist couldn't impress upon us more that there was no choice, it had to be removed. After a six and a half hour surgery, healing, removal of her own teeth on that side of her face being removed, before they could move forward with her 33 Radiation Head and Neck treatments over seven weeks with admissions at the end to get the radiation to the end of 33 treatments.. At 77 it was pure hell on earth throughout the entire treatment for and for me, nursing her. With lose of taste, burnt mouth, pain and everything else that went with it. I don't feel she every truly recovered but she did survive the surgery and lived to the age of 88. At which point I am fairly certain the tumour had returned. She had such a recovery that I know for myself, I won't be going through radiation or chemo should I require it. Please, if you have a lump that's increasing in size on the side of your face, get it diagnosed and treated. Doctors such as these, are exceptional Doctors, I only wished we'd had the opportunity to access their dedication and degree of skills.

Thank you Dr Osborne, this is very helpful.

Me watching this currently in pain😫

This is my story now as a result of a facial paralysis from Ramsey Hunt Syndrome in 2022. I am nervous, confused and disappointed.😢 This was very helpful Dr. Thank you!🙏🏽

Thank you Sir

I was recently diagnosed with benign Parotid tumor. (Had biopsy) I know eventually I'll have to get it removed I'm just very nervous about finding a decent surgeon I trust! Wish you were in Indiana!

I just got mines removed a week ago and I feel so much better

@ivymarryl3827

2 жыл бұрын

Did you get face numbness?? Please answer😭

@kimkitty3914

2 жыл бұрын

Was it malign? Of so , what’s your treatment after surgery?

Hey Dr Osborne I have a small lump in front of my ear it’s been about 3 weeks is this a parotid tumor symptom ?

Wish you're here in the Philippines so you can help my sister for her surgery. 🙏

I was just recently diagnosed with a deep lobe mixed parotid gland tumor, benign. I wish you were in Michigan

@OsborneHeadAndNeckInstitute

3 жыл бұрын

Lisa Komor feel free to contact us and schedule a video consultation. Ask us about our travel grants. www.ohni.org

I am delighted with this video.Thank you Dr.Ryan Osborne.I am52 frm Philippines.also having a parotid mass tumor @left was diagnosed in 2015 .I was advised to undergo surgery yet until now im not having a surgery due to financial shortcomings.Dr.Ryan is parotid mass tumor a contagious one and how?hoping to find the answer.Thank you so much.God bless every work of your hands.Mabuhay❤🙏🏻

@normanmission1508

2 жыл бұрын

Maam saan nagsimula ang tumor mo sa infront of the ear ba? Kasi may nakapa ako na matigas na parang buto sa harap ng tenga ko

@jeyruvinzmotovlog8722

Жыл бұрын

@@normanmission1508 ako rin eh meron, kumusta naman yung sayo, ilang months or years naba ? Lumalaki ba ?

@normanmission1508

Жыл бұрын

@@jeyruvinzmotovlog8722 pina ct scan ko tong akin di na ako bumalik natakot ako hehe pero ok naman na buto lang ito

@normanmission1508

Жыл бұрын

@@jeyruvinzmotovlog8722 ganun siguro yung assymetric na mukha medyo di balance hehe

Dear sir I have mass below parotid gland last eight years no problem still what is this it benign or maligant

Dear sir I have mass below parotid gland last eight years

Dr, is it possible the parotic gland infection link to ear and caused swollen on ear and face?

@enderikosa

26 күн бұрын

yes please answer Dr?

Very informative video. I have one of these just behind my earlobe in the small indent between skull and jawbone and I'm having it removed later this year. It's currently about 2 cm in diameter, but was not obvious immediately due to it gradually pushing its way down from where it first started to grow. My main concerns are nerve preservation and residual scarring, particularly if the tumour has attached to nerves or has nerve(s) passing through it. I'm interested to know what the average loss of facial symmetry, loss of sensation and any loss of fine control of the mouth/lips might be. I also understand there's a small risk of localised sweating on the skin around the parotid if a nerve needs to be severed from the gland to facilitate removal, as it may sometimes reconnect to the skin instead (maintaining its salivary response, just to the wrong organ!) is this very common or a rare occurrence? Some great diagrams and explanation of the key questions of this condition and removal procedure.

@RizDesignz

Жыл бұрын

I'm due to have this surgery soon too with a similar size as yours. If you ended up getting the surgery can you tell me how it went and how you recovered with scarring etc.? I would be very grateful. Thank you

@ChristopherWoods

Жыл бұрын

​@@RizDesignz Hi Riz, the consultant described my nerves as being quite "tortuous" and quite tightly packed into the side of my face, which made it more difficult for them. My tumour had grown very slightly in the time between that earlier post and the day of the operation. It was described as a 'teardrop' shape, going down into the recess in my neck between ligaments etc, so was actually longer than the area which was visible behind my ear. This seems fairly typical. Nonetheless, despite the problem of my tightly packed nerve structure, and the complexity of the tumour operation, they believe they fully extracted it. Due to the complexity my operation lasted almost three hours, I slept right through it ;-) I was an outpatient surgery, so after assessment I left later that afternoon. Swelling was not bad on day 1, but day 2 onwards was not great. Sleeping was problematic for a couple of weeks, I had to prop myself up on pillows and sleep at a 60 degree angle, to avoid bending or stretching the muscles and ligaments. Any side sleeping was impossible, and I could not sleep flat, it was too painful. You will have to alter how you sleep immediately after the surgery, but you will be able to sleep on your other side after a month or so fairly comfortably. If you have a reclining living room chair you can sleep in comfortably for the first couple of weeks, you might prefer to do that. Internal scar tissue and swelling took a lot longer to subside, and even now I can still feel a tiny difference inside my neck, but it is not visible. I had some slight loss of eyebrow and forehead motion (absolute motion and speed of that motion) for a couple of months. My eyelid was also slower to open and close, and I had to close the eye on the side of the operation 'harder' for it to go completely dark. This gradually improved. The reason for this was explained as being due to the nerves possibly being stretched slightly during the operation. As the nerves repaired themselves, things improved back to very nearly normal again after a few months. The consultant was quite surprised that I had any loss of sensation or movement, despite the complexity of the structure of my nerves. Apparently the tumour was between the layers of nerves and parotid gland, which made it quite complicated in my case. I had total loss of sensation from about halfway down my ear to the bottom of my earlobe, and the skin on my left cheek and around the incision point, down and under my chin, on the side of the operation, in an area about the size of the palm of your hand. It went from totally numb to really quite sensitive (painful to touch, which made shaving 'interesting'), but this gradually subsided. Now it's only ever so slightly numb around the incision line, and most of the numbness has gone away. I still have sensation inside the ear (tragus, fossa, external ear canal etc), it's only around the outside edge that's numb, from about the point of the antihelix down to the lobe. The antitragus and tragus have sensation, so it's very minimal. For me, the incision started in front at the top of the ear, went directly down in front, followed the bottom of the earlobe around to the back, then directly down. They follow the line of the folds of the skin on your neck as closely as possible to 'hide' the scar. If the surgeon is good, the scar will be mostly invisible. I had stitches which were removed after a couple of weeks. I used Bio-Oil on my scar every so often on my scars for the few months afterwards, it's now invisible in front of the ear, and only visible from the side if you are looking closely. You will find the skin around the scar line will probably overproduce skin cells as it heals. If so, when you wash, you will need to clean the 'nooks and crannies' quite thoroughly or you will find little pockets of 'gunk' 😂 I did not have any keloid scarring, nor did I have any permanent side-effects. It's now been a year a few months since the operation, and I can push the skin around on my face (when I'm rubbing my face or scratching my cheek) with no pain at all. Shaving with manual or electric razor is absolutely fine. I have a funny scar line behind my earlobe but it's not visible. Surgeons did an excellent job. Hope that's helpful... 🙂 Definitely worth doing. Nothing has come back yet in terms of tumour, I regularly poke and prod that side of my neck and face to see if I can feel anything, but we're all good so far. There's always a chance, but I understand it's quite low. Be sure to count down from 20 when they start administering the general anaesthetic, you'll be surprised how quickly it works!

What we gaonna do, f we undergo biopsy, what f if the tumor become a malignant? Do we undergo surgery?

I had a biopsy today I'm scared

@Bodz2023

2 жыл бұрын

How did you get on?x