Hi Maura - welcome to the family. You still have a ways to go with treatment and the symptoms MAY get worse throughout, but many of us have gone before you and come out the other end of the tunnel just fine, so you and husband will likely also.

Ask what you need, one thing we have in abundance here is answers. Realize none of us are doctors, all we can do is relay how it was for us. It may or may not be the same for you.

If possible get your husband involved with the forum. If he reads this stuff himself it will make him think of questions he wants answers too.

take care,
Tony

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