Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 319 Likes: 1 | Hi Paul,
Right you are! I think that taste is the first to bite the dust, it was in my case.
I'd add the the inner ear, I lost ~50% of my hearing range because the cisplatin got either the fine hairs in the cochlea, or the nerves leading from them to the auditory center in the brain. And every other chemo has taken a bite from the remainder.
Some of these nerves will grow back, I suspect that such is the case with the ones involved in taste.
Also, if you catch it soon enough, loss of feeling in the extremities will likely reverse (recover). Mine has already lessened somewhat even though it's only been 3 weeks since I got the word that I'm in remission again.
My intro: http://oralcancersupport.org/forums/ubbt...3644#Post16364409/09 - Dx OC Stg IV 10/09 - Chemo/3 Cisplatin, 40 rad 11/09 - PET CLEAN 07/11 - Dx Stage IV C. (Liver) 06/12 - PET CLEAN 09/12 - PET Dist Met (Liver) 04/13 - PET CLEAN 06/13 - PET Dist Met (Liver + 1 lymph node) 10/13 - PET - Xeloda ineffective 11/13 - Liver packed w/ SIRI-Spheres 02/14 - PET - Siri-Spheres effective, 4cm tumor in lymph-node 03/15 - Begin 15 Rads 03/24 - Final Rad! Woot! 7/27/14 Bart passed away. RIP!
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