Don
as long as you can swallow without too much pain you probably want to keep doing it. Re taste... Even cardboard would seems to be an improvement. Try vanilla and coffee flavored milk shakes. The vanilla taste stayed around the longest for me.

M

Magic mouthwash:
these are different formulations compounded in a pharmacy.
May !! contain Maalox hence the color, Nystatin, Lidocaine, antihistamines, glucocorticoids etc.

I had a bottle too, it burned like hell and I finally threw it away. In retrospect I guess mine did not contain lidocaine.