OP      Contributing Member (25+ posts)    Joined:  Jun 2014  Posts: 38  |    I have been doing 50 mg of zinc daily since a few weeks after treatment. I am now about 4 and a half months since end of rads & chemo, and am getting some taste back. Sweet flavors were almost all gone, and fruit has not been appealing, but I would say now , I'm "knocking at the back door" of sweet flavors. There not here yet, but much better        
Head and neck cancer,  Squamous cell carcinoma,  HPV p16, Stage 3N (6/14) Occult origin;  58 year old male 35 rads & 2.5 doses Cisplatin chemo 7/10/14> 8/25/14  1.5 years clear of cancer, at this point.
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