Everybody can be different but the majority of us took a long time. Heck it was month 4 post Tx before I posted that I had an improvement in both my saliva and corresponding taste. The first improvement I noticed in taste was that I could taste the first bite almost perfectly. WOW was my feeling but unfortunately the taste only lasted for that first bite!! After that my taste buds seemed to be over whelmed and while it didn't taste bad, nothing seemed to have much of a flavor except some sweets which I never totally lost. Some foods took a lot longer to taste normal, like oranges, and some drinks, like carbonated ones, were unpleasant to put in my mouth.

As I said by my 24 month post Tx I was over healing and my taste and saliva, while not like they were pre Tx, are definitely livable.

What did bother me until I found this site POST Tx were my doctors and nurses telling me that my taste and saliva WOULD be OK within WEEKS after Tx. Heck I was barely alive weeks post Tx. I kept thinking to myself that there was something wrong with me since I was having such an unusual time recovering. Then I found this site and found out not only was I not unusual but I was NORMAL. Knowing that you are normal means a lot when this cancer takes so much of our normal life away from us and you fear it may have taken more than your doctor's planned. That is just one great benefit of this site because we can give new people real expectations and realistic goals.