 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | My taste has completely returned to normal. Even sweets are good again. It was a phase in process, salt being the first to return and sweets being the last. Keep experimenting with diiferent foods and tastes.
One other note, that even with most of my salivary function back, too much salt will cause evening dry mouth, so go easy on the salt.
You WILL thoroughly enjoy your food again. For me it was one of the worst side effects of the treatment.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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