Hi. Well done on getting to week 5. Just remember the treatment continues to work after it's finished fir several weeks. Kerp eye on pain medication as it comes in yig all at  once. 
goid luck keep in touch 

Hazel xx

Hi you are on course week 3 was salty for me that's ar fir the course. Week 6 usually  you turn a corner by week 12 a bit more normal return. Try home made soup that way you control the seasoning kerp  away ftom tomatoes it does get better just takes tone. Hazel xx

Hi there 

I think the mucus got better for me about week 5 idont know if this helped but I stopped taking the pain relief  about the same time.good luck

mantra is all about drinking as much water as you can even if small sips frequently

Would make the mucas go away as well all suffered this unpleasant side effect but water helped me as far as Im concerned. Might help break mucus up a bit, keeps you hydrated and uses your throat muscles.

As previous post, it does go away and doesnt last too long in the big scheme of things.

I knowit's unpleasant but try and stay upbeat as its part of the journey towards the light at the end of the tunnel and its all perfectly normal at your stage.

regards

Ian

What about taste. I can't seem to eat it's all tastes rubbish so I'm still using milkshakes through the peg. P

I finished treatment middle November  last year I'm eating things now that I wouldn't have eaten before my taste seems to have changed

Hi the treatment  does change your taste Iv gone off red meat, not such a bad thing really.

My partner's having the same issue - he's in week 6 now. Everything started tasting disgustingly metallic for him in week 3. After speaking with the dietician he's recently moved up to 5 Ensure shakes through his RIG tube a day, supplemented by 2 snacks to keep his jaw/swallowing action working and to get his calorie count up. He's found that it's easiest to have really bland things that he normally wouldn't eat - custard, rice pudding, porridge, Weetabix and full fat yoghurt are his new friends! It's so far from our usual diet of Mediterranean/Indian food, but we're hopeful he can work towards that slowly after recovering.

Hi fir me the mantra food  is fuel got me  through the first 6 months. It was a case if getting my head around the fact that itcwss eat to live rather than live to eat. Tiday is hubby's birthday we've just been out for a meal. I am 3 years post radiotherapy you get used to knowing what you can and can't eat . For  me spicy food is a no no for some they can eat it. I can't die just work around me. Taste does come back but slowly it's one of the many things we aren't really told. I was given at target  of 2500 calories each and every day to include 85 g of protein for the first few months I orally had 6 ensures which gave me 1800 calories and left me free to make up the balance. Plus I sipped 2 litres of water minimum.  Our bodies take a battering and recovery isn't a thjng we can rush. 
plus point I've cycled 900 km these last few weeks over in Spain  life does get better. 
Hazel x