Hi Sheila

I started getting taste back about 4 weeks post IMRT. It was still really *weird* what I could taste and what was cardboard. Sweets came back first and slowly everything else. I still have some problems, anything with citrus is sour or at best tart and not sweet, and anything cold (ice cream and such) kills my taste for a couple of hours. I didn't have much of a sweet tooth before, but now I have got to have something sweet after meals. Soft chocolate chip cookies are the best!

Spicy hot is complete out. Ketchup and BBQ sauce were a problem at first (too spicy), but now I am okay with them.

MSG is also a problem for me, dries my mouth out beyond belief, i it wasn't already bad enough. I have come to realize how many of the chain restaurants use MSG in apparently large quantities. Thankfully I have a mom-n-pop Chinese restaurant close by that does not use MSG!


It just takes time


Kevin

18 YEAR SURVIVOR
SCC Tongue (T3N0M0) diag 06/2006.
No evidence of disease 2010
Another PET 12-2014 pre-HBO, still N.E.D.

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