Coming up on six years out from treatment and if I eat processed food (Boxed, packaged, etc) and don't stay VERY hydrated I get an overwhelming salty taste. Not that I'm complaining because my diet has continued to expand and now includes a little bit of spice (I used to love "Hot & spicy" foods). Just keep trucking, experimenting, and stay hydrated.

Best Wishes,
Steve

Lefty, try distilled water. All other water tasted terrible to me after chemo but the distilled was okay, a great suggestion from my niece who drank it while she was pregnant. Karen

That's a good idea about the distilled water! My son could even taste the salt in the low sodium soups and even accused me of putting salt in his chicken noodle soup after he had expressly told me to get the low sodium soup. The taste bud for salt must be very active. It's coming up on 7 years for my son since he completed treatment but I remember how he said that certain areas of his tongue had certain tastes of their own and it seemed to him that each of the taste buds had their own reaction to taste. It really does get better, though and soon you will see small improvements and each one will be a celebration! Paul would try everything on specific parts of his tongue to see what reaction he would have and the day that he could taste the sweet taste of one M & M, it was a celebration - he was so happy, you would have thought he had invented sliced bread!

I taste salt w/o eating or drinking anything. It does seem somewhat less pronounced lately. I actually find that eating things that are normally salty or would go well with salt taste better than sweet things.