I've been afraid to try jalapeno peppers so far although I've had good luck with a little bit of pico. I used to love spicy food before treatment and I've been leary of it since treatment ended. I'm just now getting back into having salsa and chips at my favorite tex-mex joint. Over all my sense of taste has been coming back quite well, although sweet is the slowest to return. I would say that I'm at least 70% of where I was prior to treatment. Of course 70% of my taste is pure joy compared to no taste at all. I've been lucky in that I've been able to finish everything I've attempted to consume.

-Brett


Base of Tongue SCC. Stage IV, T1N2bM0. Diagnosed 25 July 2003.
Treated with 6 weeks induction chemo -- Taxol & Carboplatin once a week followed with 30 fractions IMRT, 10 fields per fraction over 6 more weeks. Recurrence October 2005.