Learn how to swallow as soon as you can. The taste will resolve itself, but trust me: not being able to swallow is something you need to fix asap. I swallowed all through my first year of rad and Tx and it was not until this year's surgery that I lost that ability. they tell me that maybe by Christmas I can swallow if the next round of therapy is successful. Even if taste does not come back, the smell of foods can compensate a lot. And as David notes, taste recovery is a journey with some detours. So hang in there, it will get better. Even I could finally taste garlic and olives after almost a year of zero and I mean zero taste. then it all came cascading back until the recurrence. SWALLOWing is much more important than taste in the scheme of recovery.


65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin

Passed away 4-29-13