Nelie,

As far as timeline, I am just a bit behind Minnie, although I did not have a glossectomy. My throat hurts every morning for a while when I first wake. I go through bouts of my mouth hurting and if I drink a soda, my entire mouth and throat hurts the next day until I swish for a couple of days with Nystatin. I battled thrush for many months and it caused sores in my mouth and throat that were really painful, even swallowing water, which took me almost 6 months to tolerate, by the way. I choked when I tried to swallow water so I just drank a lot of milk.

Sometime around February, about 4 months post treatment, everything changed and I even fight the teenagers for the chips and salsa now . I grew some jalapenos last summer and either the massive rain we got or something made them so hot that when I tried one, I had to reach for the magic mouthwash for about an hour to ease the pain. I still have 3 jars left a year later !

I eat everything now and especially love tabasco on my fried chicken again. I never get more than an arm's distance from my water bottle and try to go for periods without it but can still only go about 5 minutes without a swig or my throat gets a little painful.

It sounds like you are on track for where you are. It took me about 10-12 weeks for the brown stringy goo to mellow out. I used to tell people to imagine Crystal Gayle singing..."Don't it make your brown goo clear..." When it turned clear, it was soon gone. The vomitting stopped shortly after that. I also thought Boston Market would be pretty neutral but I puked up the squash even, after it bitterly burned my throat while I ate it. Even mashed potatoes burned for months.

Hang in there.

Ed