I would love to see people post when they got their saliva back, and how much, as David did above. I'm 13 months post treatment with virtually no saliva. Tried acupuncture about a month post-treatment unsuccessfully. Have pretty much given up hope of seeing it return. The lack of saliva to help start breaking down solid food together with my having all but one set of molars removed means that eating solid foods is almost impossible. Combine that with my altered taste which makes most food unpalatable means that I am on a daily liquid diet of a combination of Scandishake and Boost VHC three times a day. This is worse than boring, it's depressing.

It would be nice to know that there is the possibility of light, however dim, at the end of a tunnel.


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