After a year, fresh hot peppers and some salsa still causes burning in my tongue. It was a good 6 months before it did not burn all the time.
This seems to be the slowest part of healing, but it is still improving. I can however eat hot sause like it was catsup, so it can get better. Be patient.

Flip
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Age: 54 SCC Tonsil + 3 nodes
Radiation and Carboplatin
Treatment 4/1 - 6/7/2009
No surgery, no PEG
Never smoked
Drink socially (brew my own beer and love wine. A bottle of scotch lasts me a couple of years)
CT 11/4/09 No sign of envolvement in Tonsil or nodes