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Food, drink and metal mouth food suggestions please!
I had my last docetaxel (chemo 6) last Monday (yeeha!) and noticed that unlike the first three rounds of FEC, mostly everything tastes yucky and metallic on docetaxel. Well, for me. I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions for food and drink choices? I know they may not be nutritious but better than not eating! Even brands seem to matter. So far I've found these foods okay:
wheatbix, soggy, with skim milk, banana and 1tsp brown sugar
vita wheat 9 grains with full cream Philly cream cheese and avocado slices
cold water and raspberry cordial
zuchinni, gem squash, yellow button squash with butter, baked potato and butter
soft cheese ... sometimes
chocolate milk shake with ice cream! (too much ice cream and milk = diarrhoea ☹)
banana paddle pop ... still metallic but not too bad
full strength natural yoghurt
Any ideas for sore throat and metal mouth?
Thank you!
wheatbix, soggy, with skim milk, banana and 1tsp brown sugar
vita wheat 9 grains with full cream Philly cream cheese and avocado slices
cold water and raspberry cordial
zuchinni, gem squash, yellow button squash with butter, baked potato and butter
soft cheese ... sometimes
chocolate milk shake with ice cream! (too much ice cream and milk = diarrhoea ☹)
banana paddle pop ... still metallic but not too bad
full strength natural yoghurt
Any ideas for sore throat and metal mouth?
Thank you!
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- Able NOT blue - sorry
- Able NOT blue - sorry
- For a sore throat @viking1 you could try propolis lozenges available at Pharmacies and Health food shops - they keep your throat lubricated for quite a while. Also Chobani honey yogurt in the squeegee pouches are good - has the highest concentration of honey of all the yogurts and blue to be squirted down a sore throat.
- Hey @viking1, I didn't end up having chemo (although initially it was thought I would have) but have some friends who did and they told me about the metallic taste and told me to try red lolly frogs or fruit tingles. Worked for them and I certainly would have given them a go. Xx
- Oh yeah and dont forget cheese pizza!
- Up until chemo it had been months since I had, cheese or bread. Now I cant get enough of colby cheese toasties on those days my mouth are at its worst.
- I wonder what the deal is with the cheese? God, I would love a cheese toastie! When I was on FEC all I could eat was healthy food...which was excellent. No interest in the bad stuff and went off chocolate even. Had no taste probs either, no ulcers or oral thrush. Docetaxel changed everything. I think I will have a baked potato with cheese on it for dinner, and an avocado!
That sounds like a pretty robust diet to me! I was reduced to sugar and starch. Ice cream and potato. Cream cheese and avocado in the week before chemo
Gluten and I don't get on and chemo made that relationship worse. That was an issue when all I wanted was cheese toasties. I remember standing in the kitchen crying and eating two minute noodles--I loathe them and don't even know why they were in the pantry but, at the time, it was just too exhausting to think about trying to prepare something I couldn't eat anyway.
A point of correction, I could eat things, but anything other than sugar and starch sent my gut into monster spasms that were so excruciating I was terrified of trying anything that may set me off.
Soda water with a slice of lemon was the stand by. It helped fizz all the dead stuff off my tongue.
- Anything lemon for me. Lemonade ice locks,lemon cordial and maybe veggie soup n crackers when I could mange it.
