Be patient with yourself. Thrush is just awful (had it 3 bad times post treatment); then got oral herpes too! That all really set me back on eating and tasting. However, you have to get the nutrition - and calories. Your body needs healing power. For the first few months post treatment I went to gym for 1/2 hour with hubby and then sat and read until he was done. Now, 8 months post treatment, I work out with him the whole time. I still have limited saliva (but I can go in a store for over an hour without my water bottle tied to me) and very muted tastes (I have no sweet so everything else just isn't right)....but I am eating more for texture. Some things just get too "stuck" (between face and teeth) but I try, add sauces, learn something and try again. I am holding my weight and doing a bit more healthy every day. You have to both give yourself a break and push yourself a bit....a dance...but it will work. You can do it!!!


right tonsil primary HPV stage IVa at age 59 June 28, 2012
started radiation 7/25 until 9/11; handled chemo cisplatin weekly for 5 weeks; hospitalized last week of rads
clean scans Feb 2013; monthly scopes
very very happy to be alive and more aware of savoring life!