 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Michelle,
It sounds to me like she is doing exceptionally well. I started regaining my sense of taste after a month or so and salty flavor was the first with sweets being the last. It took a good year for full recovery of the taste buds. The salivary function took longer - about 18 months.
I experimented with different flavors and strangely enough, I could still taste coffee so I drank a lot of espresso flavored Carnation Instant Breakfact and coffee flavored Hagen Daz milkshakes.
Most of us never had a post Tx PET scan but if she does they should allow several months for the tissues to heal or there will be a lot of false positives.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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