 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 559 Likes: 1 | Hi Kerri -
I can't give you any answers for your questions, but do share the sensitivity for certain spices, particularly any of the hot spices like red pepper or anything that has jalapeno.
You didn't mention it above, but I also have a fairly long list of foods that don't taste good now (1 year post treatment, radiation only) that did taste better some months ago (post treatment).
Milk is one, most sweets (especially chocolate), some meats (beef). It's disappointing that return of taste for food has been so non-linear after treatment. I always expected/hoped that the list of bad tasting foods would just slowly decrease over time until everything pretty much tasted as good as it did before cancer. That just hasn't been the case. Maybe the one benefit of bad food taste is you don't gain much weight.
By comparison, your problems seem much worse; at least nothing I eat causes pain.
good luck
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
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