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How long until taste buds grow back after chemotherapy?

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For anyone who has finished chemo, how soon after did your taste return? And hair ... When I underwent chemo the first time...my hair began to grow back a few days before my last chemo treatment (Taxol). ... After completing chemo, my taste buds (food tasting the same as before chemo) started coming in relatively quickly. read more

Radiation therapy usually causes more severe depletion of taste buds and it may take months for them to return to normal. After chemotherapy alone, taste usually returns to normal in a month or two - unless - the cancer itself is causing an alteration in taste independent of the treatment. read more

As chemotherapy in general destroys dividing precursor cells including those that produce taste cells, activating Wnt signaling may be a way to renew taste buds after chemotherapy. This approach could form the basis for developing"complementary treatment to help restore normal taste function to avoid malnutrition and psychological distress for these patients," the study said. read more

After completing chemo, my taste buds (food tasting the same as before chemo) started coming in relatively quickly. Food just started getting more flavorful gradually. I think it was a matter of just a few weeks until it returned fully. As for hair, I had a little fuzz maybe a month after my last chemo infusion. read more

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