 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | If you are like most of us things may get a tad worse for the next 2 weeks and then one day you will wake up and feel just a tad better but something will tell you that the worst is over. I called that walking out of my dark tunnel. I walked out in my 3rd week post Tx. I still had some bad days but slowly the good days outnumbered the bad days until finally no more bad days.
Taste and saliva improvement, which I think go hand and hand, will take a very long time to return to anything like pre Tx normal. I started to see some improvements my 4th month post Tx and by my 15th month I was satisfied that if I didn't improve anymore I could live with it.
Everyone can be different, especially because the radiation target fields can be different so you will just have to be patient and see how you turn out.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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