Thanks everyone; I guess I am just impatient, wishing this recovery would move along a little faster. My appetite is coming back so I am "jones'ing" for some of my favorite foods, like chili, pizza, pasta and salsa, but find the stinging/burning sensation is just too much to be able to eat them now. Will keep trying at intervals. Thanks for your feedback and suggestions.

How about the dry mouth--does that get better with time? I had 36 rad treatments and was fortunate to rarely have pain or sores, and the exterior burns healed completely with aquaphor, so I am hoping I will get lucky and get some saliva back, too!