Hey Sheldon,
My hubby is almost 5 months post treatment and not much taste yet. He is just now in a week going back to work for part time 2 weeks, then onto full time. You are doing extremely well so fast. Dan went down on the patches like you, but kinda quickly went off the Oxycodone and he definitely had w/d systems. His was more along the lines of not able to sleep at nite at all for a few nites and something crawling on him feeling. Fortunately, it didn't last too long.
Take care and God bless,
Debbie

Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.