Eight months - Not a lot of change in 8th month post radiation.

Taste for food remains the disappointment. Many foods taste pretty bland, but I can eat most anything. Sadly, ice cream is still bland to bad, even good ice cream. I keep trying it, hoping it will come back as I really love ice cream.

Beer tastes pretty good, but can't drink too much of that as I want my weight to stay down.

Dry and gunky sinuses seem to be improving some. Now, at most I use the sinus irrigator once a day.

Something maybe a little new, I seem to feel like I have a bad taste in my mouth a lot of the time, so brush my teeth easily 4 to 5 times per day.

All in all, it's really about the same it was 30 days ago.

take care,

Tony, 69, non-smoker, aerobatics pilot, bridge player/teacher, avid dancer (ballroom, latin, swing, country)

09/13 SCC, HPV 16, tonsillectomy, T2N0.
11/13 start rads, no chemo
12/13 taste gone, dry mouth,
02/14 hair slowly returning
05/14 taste the same, dry sinuses, irrigation helps.
01/15 food taste about 60% returned, dry sinuses are worse in winter.
12/20 no more sinus problems, taste pretty good