P.S. If you are having serious throat pain this early in treatment it may be thrush. That happened to me on the same timeframe.

Ask a doc to check. Nystatin worked fast and got me back on track. The bad pain didn’t return until the end of treatment (that was the radiation effect).

Gagging from phlegm was my biggest challenge. Losing all taste is awful too, but I’m three months out now and it’s probably 80% restored.