If you have had similar treatments my BIL Andy would like to ask you a few questions.

Did you get any taste back after recovery?

How long after treatment did you begin to taste things again?

I know that it different with everyone, but my BIL would just like to know what happened with your recovery/taste.

Thanks for any answers.

~Sheila - Sister to Caregiver Sheri and Sister-In-Law to Andy

Sheila, this will help with terminology.
There are 2 search engines on the OCF site. One at the top and one at the bottom of each page. Surf the site. It will help you learn all its functions and resources

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Ok PeteyB, thanks for the links. I'm usually pretty forum savvy and have even helped moderate a few, but these have a whole different feel and look than what I'm used to.

I'm really lost on the abbreviations here. I will check those out and then make a siggy from that point.

Thanks again,

Sheila

Hey Sheila

With your experiance, read in the "General Board" forum the topic "How to get the most out of this forum". And then click the "faq" at the top center of any page and read it. Then you pretty much will have it all "down pat".

Good Luck

Hi Sheila

I started getting taste back about 4 weeks post IMRT. It was still really *weird* what I could taste and what was cardboard. Sweets came back first and slowly everything else. I still have some problems, anything with citrus is sour or at best tart and not sweet, and anything cold (ice cream and such) kills my taste for a couple of hours. I didn't have much of a sweet tooth before, but now I have got to have something sweet after meals. Soft chocolate chip cookies are the best!

Spicy hot is complete out. Ketchup and BBQ sauce were a problem at first (too spicy), but now I am okay with them.

MSG is also a problem for me, dries my mouth out beyond belief, i it wasn't already bad enough. I have come to realize how many of the chain restaurants use MSG in apparently large quantities. Thankfully I have a mom-n-pop Chinese restaurant close by that does not use MSG!


It just takes time


Kevin

Wow, my taste recovery was exactly opposite except for the fact I started tasting again about 2 mos. after radiation. It is now almost 4 mos. after treatment and I can pretty much taste everything but sweets. This is probably a good thing in that I was an Ice Cream freak and, at this point,it simply doesn't appeal to me anymore. Due to my reduced saliva and the resultant capacity for tooth decay, I am glad it is the sweets I can't taste. I have also found it difficult to eat foods that tend to be dry like chicken which was a major staple of my former diet.

Thanks Petey, Kevin and Lamont.

My BIL was kinda freaked out yesterday by a nurse who told him that he may never get any taste back. I did a search on taste buds here and was happy to see that everyone who had posted said they eventually got "some" if not all taste back eventually.

I also read where several said they have taste for a few minutes, or bites and then it, as one poster put it, craps out.

I read some threads from here about taste buds to my BIL over the phone and I think he feels a little better.

Thanks again

Sheila

Sister-In-Law to Andy