About 6 months post RT, taste had come back quite well but seems to deteriorated in the last few weeks. Tongue may have been a bit burnt by hot food so don’t know if this had an effect. Lymphedema up & down in the heat , not sure what that does if anything. Does taste functuate?
Can't remember any fluctuations myself Steve but nothing would surpise me, I was about ten months post treatment and still struggling when my consultant told me what I had by then was unlikely to improve, and immediately after it did. I think maybe the psychological effect of accepting how I was helped with the change, I stopped searching for it and it happened.
I'm about seven and a half years post treatment now and I'd call my taste pretty much normal, very nearly back to what it was in 2013. Few things are still not palatable, hot curries and red wine being the most regrettable ones; but I actually get pleasure from food now, which I didn't for a long time. Stick with it.
Metastatic SCC diagnosed 8th October 2013. Modified radical neck dissection November, thirty-five radiotherapy fractions with 2xCisplatin chemo Jan/Feb 2014. Recurrence on larynx diagnosed July 2020 so salvage laryngectomy in September 2020.
Does taste functuate?
Hi Steve yes mine does even two plus years on
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
