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In reply to the discussion: Post Covid issues--advise, help. [View all]irisblue
(32,950 posts)14. Taste changes after head&neck cancers have decades of research
I did radiation therapy treatments for several years, the taste changes that *some* patients experience were awful.
Technical source-https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2017.35.15_suppl.e18199#:~:text=Patients%20with%20maintained%20taste%20did,bitter%20and%20metallic%20phantom%20taste.
Would your(asshole) Dr talk to an Radiation Oncologist, at a University hospital about hooking you up with the head & neck clinic dieticians?
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I can't imagine what you're going through !!! Your doctors are idiots. I have no suggestions... real
Karadeniz
Aug 2022
#1
Have you noticed ANY improvement since this began? I thought I read that the taste problem was
Karadeniz
Aug 2022
#8
This is truly a health issue and I can't think of a single type of doctor who would know how to
Karadeniz
Aug 2022
#39
I tried holding my nose and sipping on water.. didn't work.. but that wasn't out of left
PA_jen
Aug 2022
#13
Toking cannabis by chance? Humulene is the terpeme I figured out was giving me stomach issues.
Brainfodder
Aug 2022
#23
I think a University Hospital might be helpful...They at least seem to me...
electric_blue68
Aug 2022
#27
When I became ill in the late 90's with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity after Malathion poisoning,
womanofthehills
Aug 2022
#36