I kept a daily chart of my symptoms so I'd be able to compare. Many things do improve but I'm now one year out of treatment and my taste has not improved, it seems to have gotten some what worse. I have a constant strong taste of salt that makes almost everything taste terrible, together with hypertaste, in general, along with very little saliva.

As my Docs told me, everyone has different responses but you should be aware of what the range is. They don't like to tell you that little or no recovery is one end of the spectrum.


Stage 3-4 Squamous BOT diagnosed 3/19/12
Molars removed 3/29/12
(Cisplatin) inpatient: 4/11/12-4/16/12; 5/2/12-5/9/12; 5/29/12-6/4/12
Feeding tube: 8/9/12-11/21/12
Radiation 8/10/12-8/29/12
Chemo 1X/week 8/10/12-8/22/12
Last PET/CT clear: 9/17/13