If you like V8 and still want the vegetables in it there are several different kinds that are available V8 Splash...strawberry bananna flavor, strawberry kiwi for a few...although I found them to have a lot of salt...
Ketchup still burns wierd I didn't like it much before surgery though..

Add ginger ale to the list too. It lights you fire real fast. I force the things that burn down sometime just to remind myself what they taste like.. Sugar is ine thing that gets me every time. That I am going to quit trying, even with cereal.. I do use the sugar substitute also.

Jim--wouldn't it be easier just to smell for the memories! Birch beer burns...I miss Birch beer.

I wonder if sweat and sweaty buffalo wings would burn? Just a couple...one?

Yea, I bet the ginger ale does lite you up. I tried Sprite and found out I can't drink soda's. It has been years since I drank a soda but one day at chemo a lady was drinking a sprite so I thought I would try. Big mistake!

Also, I had to start grinding up a few of my meds because they get stuck in my throat. Well one of them is my asprin and let me tell you that one does me up a job. But I can't swallow them no matter what I do other than to grind it up. Everything taste like salt to me. I can't even taste sugar.

Angel,

Ask your doctor for liquid meds. Mine would burn awfully bad but mixing it with warm tea did the trick.

At one point through tx Gatorade was like drinking acid.

I had to avoid anything acidic during mid Tx to several months post Tx. Even canteloupe would burn like hell. Hot & spicy didn't work either. Nor did anything too salty. Like David though, after a year or 2 I was eating virtually anything I wanted. I was able to eat pizza and salad with dressing 2 months post Tx (and taste it).

It took longer to have every subtle flavor come back. Sweets took the longest.

I was extremely sensitive to salt at first (post-nuking), which has now returned to normal, but my sweet tastes have NOT returned, and now my taste is even worse because my wrist didn't have taste buds... I can feel the effects of sugar, like in coffee, but not the sugar itself.

I also couldn't take the burn of regular Gatorade but found their G2 version is OK.

First everything tasted burnt. It was like eating charcoal out of the firplace. Even water tasted burnt. That thankfully lasted only about 2 months. I was also overly sensitive to salt. Anything with a little salt would burn my mouth and taste awful. That took a long time to get thru. Forget soda, cant drink it at all, still burns my mouth.

Angels, Can you get the coated aspirin? That's what I have to use but they go down fairly well. I have trouble with some of the uncoated meds. I wonder where they get the ingredients for some of them? Hummmmm any barns nearby??? LOL

Ray, I have asked numerous times about liquid meds but the Dr.'s wouldn't give them to me.

Gary, That gives me hope about the 2 months and tasting something. I sure hope i do as I am dehydrated still and so weak.

Pete, I will give the new gatoraid a try. Water and Ensure is all I am trying right now. I tried a burger and it felt like it ripped my throat going down so I don't want to do that again.

Christine, I won't miss soda's because I haven't be a person to drink them for years now. But I sure do miss the taste of food and chocolate and coffee. My mouth taste like salt all the time. I can't brush it out or mouthwash won't get the taste out.

Jim, Yes I do take the coated asparin, Ecotrin. That is one of the ones that won't go dowm and when it gets caught in my throat, it sacares me because it is a long time before I could get it to go dowm. I hope there aren't any barns nearby too. lol Hope you are getting better too. Today was my last treatments. I am on my way to recovery now! Yea! Angel