My worse week was actually my last week of TX. The first week of recovery was just slightly better. After a couple weeks improvements came pretty quickly.

I also lost my voice towards the end, but I could still squeak! Within a week it returned.

Post TX, getting back to eating solid foods was my biggest struggle and it took several months before food tasted decent. For me, taste returning was a very gradual process and sometimes down right depressing.

I never seemed to need extra calories to hold my weight. About 2400 seemed to do it. But, after my PEG was removed I had problems eating and my weight dropped for a while.

It also took a few month to get over bouts with the dry mouth (particularly at night).