I was able to get at least soft food down until the last week of treatment, and then 2 weeks afterwards. As of today (15 days post end of treatment) I am again able to eat ice cream and I had some turkey soup and even some cottage cheese with canned peaches. But for those 2-3 weeks all I could choke down was Ensure. Just before I had to go on Ensure, I was also able to eat poached eggs. Now I HATE eggs, but they at least went down easily.

I bought Juven, but it really hurt the sores/burns in my mouth. Now that they're healing, I'll try again.

Of course, my radiation was to the cheek, and mostly avoided the neck, so it didn't hurt much to swallow, just to have anything in my mouth. Mainly sores on the tongue, roof of mouth, and cheek/gums.

But those are finally healing (YEAH). I've lost about 30 lbs so far since the beginning of this, but I'm still 30 lbs. overweight, so it's not all bad...just means I'm probably not healing as fast as I could.