 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | My experience was about the same as Christine. It didn't all come back at once. Salty things were first and sweets were the last. They started coming back about 3 months post Tx and were fairly normal after a year. Sweets took a little longer.
It is pretty wierd being able to smell one thing and taste another. I never got used to that.
Sadly in some cases the taste buds don't return, but that is far less common.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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