Ditto on getting involved with eating and swallowing ASAP and lose the tube if you can.

I'm 6 1/2 months out now and back to eating-but my choices are limited. I'm off the Ensure, Prosure, & Naturade Weight gain after living on it exclusively for nearly 5 months. My energy level is coming back & I'm feeling more 'normal' BUT-I don't eat for the taste. NOTHING tastes good. I eat only for the nutrition. For awhile there, I didn't even experience hunger....I just got weak and faint when I needed food. Now I get really hungry early enough to do something about it.

I'm for doing everything we can as early as we can to recapture the old 'normal' ASAP

dx 2/13/06. modified radical neck dissection 3/9/06 multiple biopsies of upper airway and direct laryngoscopy. 1 of 47 lymph nodes positive for metastatic undifferentiated carcinoma (lymphoepithelioma). Unknown primary. Finished radiation 5/24/06.