Bad taste again

[er]

I thought I was over the bad taste. Yesterday I went out for lunch with a friend and my face started to do its thing, then later I started tasting the cooper taste in my left side of my tongue again. Then there was a dull ach in my surrounding area of the surgery all evening. So I assume it is a healing process.
eve

[Yvette]

Hi Eve, I am 4 months post op and still get that taste when eating my favorite treat-chocolate. The taste was there constantly post op but began to only be noticeable with certain foods. (I did pray that I would be able to stick to my diet-I think someone up there is smirking at me. haha)  My docs said it would improve over the next several months, but may not completely go away. Yvette

[Boppie]

Everybody around me was tired of hearing me say my tongue was "weirded out again"! 

Hang in there.

The strange tastes set in at 3 months out and changed from week to week - better and worse again, back and forth - until about 11 months post op.  At 17 months post op, I have only occassional numb streaks across my tongue.  The sensitive spot on the tip of my tongue is healed now too.

Once in a while I will taste something new or spicy that sets my tongue off and I will have to drink or eat a small amount of sweet food to straighten it out.  I have to cool hot food.