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Joined: May 2009 Posts: 114 | What is the consensus on taking zinc supplements to help tastbuds come back? I did take zince 3 times a day at 50 mg each. For a short time. I did not finish an entire bottle. My taste came back in 6 months but after 10 months it still is changing. I taste mostly from the back of my tongue and right side. Processed foods a almost always too salty now. Coffee was the first thing I could taste, then eggs, then chocolate. Everything is a little different or I am more sensitve to taste. Also most prcessed foods are apparently spiced with heat, pepper I like but it wears me down trying to get through a meal spiced with heat.
Age 52, T2 N0 M0 SCC of left anterior floor of mouth. Esophagoscopy, Direct laryngoscopy, Resection of left anterior FOM lesion w/ lateral tongue. left selective neck dissection levels I-IV. 5x6cm skin graft coverng excision. Finished 33-35 rad Tx. False recurrence 12-22-10 last surgery 2-15-10
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