My RO told me I would start getting some taste back after six weeks, but that the first tastes to return would be sour and bitter. I finished radiation 1/13. I am 3 1/2 weeks out and within the last week have had a vague hint of taste when eating an orange freeze milkshake and again when eating a chocolate peanut M & M. With the chocolate,, I found that what I tasted was not sweet but bitter. There are other things (mainly meats) that I don't feel like I taste, but at the same time I no longer feel like I am eating cardboard when I do try to eat them. The sores in my mouth healed last week, but my tongue is still really sensitive and just having food move around in my mouth is uncomfortable. It does get old not being able to taste things normally, but hopefully "this too shall pass!"