Ron,

It sounds as though you had the same doc as me. I tried to pin my radiation doc on loss of taste and when will recover but I could tell he didn't want to have to answer. The best I could ever get out of him was that "on average" it takes 2 to 10 months post Tx for the tastebuds to return. He still qualified this by saying that even in "some cases" full taste may never return for certain taste sensations. He stressed that every case was different and that there was no blanket answer to that question. I am now 14 months post Tx and taste is perhaps 75% back to normal. I still cannot tolerate the taste of chocolate or most other desserts and most bread products taste sweet. I was never much of a beer drinker but it is terrible now as it tastes like it is full of sugar.

Bill D.