So I had a hemiglossectomy in april 2010 and then had 30 rounds of radiation that ended july 15th.

I am wondering how long it will be before some side effects from all of that treatment go away.

Right now my sores from radiation are "gone" but they still hurt in the spots that they were.

Every morning that I wake up, my whole mouth hurts. I think partially due to dryness but other then that i am not sure.

Also whenever I eat anything that has tomato in it, like spaghetti, pizza, chili, it tastes spicy!

Any help that people can give me would be great, and I hope the spicy goes away, makes it hard to eat any of that stuff, and I can't tolerate anything spicy anymore, when I used to love to eat spicy things before treatment.

Thanks in advance!