I described the taste as 'burnt salt', at first I couldn't tolerate water because it just tasted like burnt salt; so I drank gatorade exclusively for a few weeks. As treatment wore on the taste somewhat faded so I went back to water and it was fine. My taste began to return 2 weeks post TX, and improved at two week intervals after that. I have least 80% taste back, if not more. Salty tastes were the first to come back.