Sourpuss

zipperneck2012
zipperneck2012 Member Posts: 27
in Head and Neck Cancer #1
I've done 17/33 radiation sessions for thyroid cancer and everything tastes sour except ice cream and eggs. It's absolutely revolting -_-. Did anyone else have this strange side effect? When will it return to normal?

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  • Laralyn
    Laralyn Member Posts: 532
    #2
    From what I've read,
    From what I've read, everyone experiences taste changes.

    It started early with me--around radiation 4, I noticed my mouth tasted sweet all the time and I could barely taste salty things. Now (radiation 8), about half the taste is gone and I'm noticing everything tastes funky.

    So yes, I think the side effect is common. From what folks here have posted, their sense of taste (mostly) comes back, but it sounds like it takes a little while.
  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #3
    Eggs & Ice Cream...
    Man, you can taste eggs and Ice Cream week 4, you are a lucky man....

    Actually I lost all taste around where you are, eventually having a little start returning around 4 - 5 weeks post rads.

    Now at nearly 3 years out, I have regained nearly if not 100% back.

    Funny thing for me, and a lot of others...sweet and especially Ice Cream for me took all of 2 years to fully return.

    Best,
    John
  • Tonsil Dad
    Tonsil Dad Member Posts: 488
    #4
    Skiffin16 said:

    Eggs & Ice Cream...
    Man, you can taste eggs and Ice Cream week 4, you are a lucky man....

    Actually I lost all taste around where you are, eventually having a little start returning around 4 - 5 weeks post rads.

    Now at nearly 3 years out, I have regained nearly if not 100% back.

    Funny thing for me, and a lot of others...sweet and especially Ice Cream for me took all of 2 years to fully return.

    Best,
    John

    Me Too.!!!
    I'm nearly two weeks post rads and can't taste anything, maybe a little bit of lemon
    on the tip of the tongue (I could taste a lemon perrier). I lost all taste early at
    around week two. Just hoping and praying that my taste and saliva return asap because
    I loved my FOOOOD.

    There are many of us on here that lost taste and saliva and reading their posts
    it does eventualy come back to near normal. So thats comforting.

    God bless
    Tonsil Dad,

    Dan.
  • longtermsurvivor
    longtermsurvivor Member Posts: 1,842 Member
    #5
    man, I did
    with my first rads, I remember how overpowering the sour tastecto otherwise pretty mundane foods was. It is because u r losung your sweet taste, and sour is unapposed atvthe moment. That will change.
  • KTeacher
    KTeacher Member Posts: 1,103
    #6
    Normal
    is a setting on the dryer! I didn't have taste during treatment. It does come back slowly, give it time. Keep eating and drinking your water.

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