Sounds like you are doing really well, Susan. It's great that the Carnation VHC is working so well for you. Of course everyone is different but you have done so well so far, you will probably have an easier time of it than some others have had. My son lost about 20 lbs and there were times, in the waiting room when I thought his jeans would fall off him as I watched him walk slowly towards the Tx room. It was worse right after Tx ended but it was some relief for him not having to go for treatments any more. His taste buds came back at different times and from different places on his tongue. Sometimes his taste was sharper than before, for example with salt. When he was sipping chicken broth, he insisted it had too much salt in it even though I had bought the low sodium kind! His taste buds came back slowly and for different foods. It was always interesting to me to hear how different some things tasted to him and how it changed from day to day.