Question for Dr. Arun Gupta

[Guest guest]

Hello Sir,

My husband had a radical mastoidectomy this past Friday. The surgury itself went well. He is experiencing loss of taste on the left side of his mouth (surgury side). How long will it be, if ever, before he will get taste back on that side?

Thanks,

i was dignosed in 2004 with a cholesteatoma i my right ear i seen it it looked like a little greenish pea the only symptoms i had was some hearing lose and noise in my ear he said he didn't think i would need any surgery at that point to come back for a check up in 6 months which i accully forgot due to my grandmother dieing with cancer.this past aug 2008 i started have trouble with my ear severe pain in the side of my head down my neck i had several test by my autolerinoligest so he check my ear and he seen something tryed to cut out a piece but it was to painfull so he sent me to the main ent in the office the tumor in my middle ear is black now and hes not sure how big it is cause he said it was in a pocket and hidden the ct only showed it to be small but according to him (the ent) i have severe hearing lose and im in really severe pain my ear burns really bad and i have a really bad pressure in

my ear and my head it even goes up in my temple they have me on nuroten and hydrcoden and i have to put ice on it to relive the pain i cant stand to bend over cause the noise in my ear and pressure hurts so bad it sounds like my heart beats in my ear. so to someone who has had a cholesteatoma do you have any of these symptoms or is this something different please help i am supposed to have surgery in january thanks so much.

[Guest guest]

Actually corda tympani nerve which carries taste from anterior part of tongue is very thin, gets stretched or torn too, in spite of best effort by surgeon to save it.

If It was just got stretched during surgery, then you can hope to recover taste sense , max by 9 months.

If it was totally cut, then there are hardly any chance of recovery.

I too faced the same problem in a Young girl last month

Arun

On 12/26/08, Tatreau <rebecca_tatreau@...> wrote:

Hello Sir,

My husband had a radical mastoidectomy this past Friday. The surgury itself went well. He is experiencing loss of taste on the left side of his mouth (surgury side). How long will it be, if ever, before he will get taste back on that side?

Thanks,

i was dignosed in 2004 with a cholesteatoma i my right ear i seen it it looked like a little greenish pea the only symptoms i had was some hearing lose and noise in my ear he said he didn't think i would need

any surgery at that point to come back for a check up in 6 months which i accully forgot due to my grandmother dieing with cancer.this past aug 2008 i started have trouble with my ear severe pain in the side of my head down my neck i had several test by my

autolerinoligest so he check my ear and he seen something tryed to cut out a piece but it was to painfull so he sent me to the main ent in the office the tumor in my middle ear is black now and hes not sure how big it is cause he said it was in a pocket and hidden the ct only

showed it to be small but according to him (the ent) i have severe hearing lose and im in really severe pain my ear burns really bad and i have a really bad pressure in my ear and my head it even goes up in my temple they have me on nuroten and hydrcoden and i have to put ice

on it to relive the pain i cant stand to bend over cause the noise in my ear and pressure hurts so bad it sounds like my heart beats in my ear. so to someone who has had a cholesteatoma do you have any of these symptoms or is this something different please help i am

supposed to have surgery in january thanks so much.