Hello all,
Hope you are keeping well.
Just wondering something. About a year and a few months prior to diagnosis my mum started having what was diagnosed as Burning Mouth Syndrome - painful sores in her mouth which took a lot of hard work to subside. She underwent some taste changes, too - everything tasted sour, so much so that she had to add lots (LOTS) of sugar to most things she would eat so they could taste normal.
A couple of months after this, she suffered a minor stroke. A year after the stroke, she was diagnosed with stage IV CRC. The food started tasting normal again after her sigmoid resection. Aside from one episode of canker/sore reaction to the 5FU, my mum's mouth has been fine throughout chemo, too.
From what I've been reading, there doesn't seem to be a direct correlation between these symptoms, but I was wondering whether anyone here had similar experiences at all?