Trouble eating due to lack of interest in it and also taste off at times. 8 weeks post treatment of radiation and chemotherapy by.

Hi Hud7 

Yes a common problem 

Just a question of food is fuel and trial and error. 
You can try adding herbs and spices to your food  and experimenting with textures. 
I presume you can swallow? it’s just the taste? 

Hi Hud

T2N1M0 tonsil cancer ....30 radio and 4 chemo 

Diagnosed in February finished chemoradio June 2023

Most of us recovering are likely to have this issue, eating for me was a means to calorie build rather than a pleasure, slowly my taste is returning, takes time...I can now enjoy tea and chocolate biscuits, chippy food, mildly spiced Indian food, pizza etc.

Did not think I would have been able to enjoy food ever again..

... recovery is slow.

Peter 

Hi not an uncommon problem I found the mayra food is fuel and eat to live not live to eat. Food gave me very little pleasure for a good 6 months  but I made sure that I got 2500 :calorie s in each day   I took my ng tube out week 3 of recovery and was getting 1800:calories from ensures leaving me free to experiment. I didn’t eat healthy but it was a means to an end. I didn’t start putting weight in until 15 month post treatment. I ate even though I had no appetite I found 5/6 small meals better than the standard 3. Breakfast was always my best meal porridge with honey and banana instill have that even now at 5 years plus. It’s not easy as the world revolves round food. It’s getting into the right mindset. You’ll gtbghere we all do it really is marathon nit a sprint. 8 weeks is really early although yiu might nit think so. 
try reading these 

https://www.workingwithcancer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/After-the-treatment-finishes-then-what.pdf

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/66263025/cookbook-by-andrew-gaylor-head-and-neck-cancer-survivor-2022

Hazel