Food, drink and metal mouth food suggestions please!

Hi there @viking1 i didn’t have the mouth or throat issues but first week after AC and taxol everything tasted really bland. No metal taste for me just bland. I drank the mt Franklin sparkling flavoured water the lemon one as normal water made me gag. Mash potato was a favourite of mine and beef chow main.... ate bucket loads of that for some reason had huge cravings for it so always through in a tonne of Veges and oyster sauce but it had to be made with mince and not beef strips as it was a texture thing for me and only beef mince not chicken. And it had to have heaps of those egg noodles in it too. Couldn’t stand chocolate or anything too sweet which I love normally as well. Margie x

With FEC I ate mashed potato with broccoli and heaps of butter and salt. I could have eaten the salt shaker if possible! With doxetaxel I haven’t craved salt but have liked icecream and cold things like icy poles, thick shakes, watermelon. My mouth feels a little numb but also sore  so I like the cold. 

@viking1I feel your pain!! I had 3 FEC with no taste changes(although very sick) and have had 1 of 3 doxetaxel and whilst I’m grateful to not have the nausea it comes with many more little issues. I had bad pain days 3&4 and felt like I had a bad flu. 
I had oral thrush, no taste, sore throat, dry mouth so everything I eat feels like chalk, nose sores, sore fingers & super cracked lips. I guess given your experience it’s probably not going to get better either. 

Hi viking1, gotta hate docetaxol.  Sparkling mineral water - salt, salt, and more salt.  Fish & chips.  Chips without fish. Scrambled egg, lots of salt and butter so it just slid down my throat.  Days when the pain hit (around 5- to 10 days) and when water tasted awful,  It really was a battle to make myself eat.   Very unhealthy I was at that stage  and I didn't care just wanted to sleep.

Thank you @viking1
it's an uncommon side effect apparently. They were also doing radiation on my throat & that's caused radiation burns to my throat, which gives me the sensation that something is stuck in my throat. I've also had indigestion which has not helped matters. They've given me a gel to gargle then swallow to numb my throat, i have anti nausea pills & indigestion pills. 
They have said that the next week or two are actually the worst as far as side effects from radiation, with skin damage/breaking down. 
I have my parents and my daughter arriving next Wednesday, so i'm hoping the skin damage doesn't get too bad, so far my skin has coped very well though. I have darkening down my side & under arm, and skin damage on my chest above the flat tyre boob which i am treating with cortisone & sorboline. 

Good luck with the rest of your treatment, i hope all goes well for you. 

@MKitty68 Congratulations on finishing chemo and rads!  How awesome...right in time for Christmas!  I haven't had any nausea throughout chemo which was weird as I was only able to take 8mg of dexamethasone (the steroid to stop it) on the day of chemo and not the full dose of 8mg for 4 more days.  Had a bad reaction to it. On thought I was going to throw up once after dinner but nothing came up weirdly.  I was sorry to hear you had nausea with rads ... I am due for 6 weeks of it in Jan.  Is that common? I though I was trading those sorts of side effects for red skin, etc

oh, i also went right off coffee and wanted tea instead - just like when i was pregnant with my kids... last chemo was 26th October, last Rads was 11th December and i'm off tea again & right back on to my yummy coffee! haha

During AC i didn't go off my food, i had nausea but not to the point of vomiting though (got enough of that from rads though)  my taste buds went weird for days, i found lemon wedges in my water bottle helped heaps! as did sucking on lemon sherbet lollies. I found I needed to eat acidic foods and drinks, lots of coke lol, and eat and drink very strong flavours, nothing bland. I did find that i would not feel hungry, but would get nauseous if i'd not eaten at the 'correct times', so ended up eating to a time schedule rather than because i was hungry. This helped a lot to keep the nausea at bay. 

I will try that Romia!  Thank you. Lol my shopping list is looking bizarre...red frogs hey!  Our friend with bowel cancer doing chemo swears by red cordial.  I got raspberry cordial and it did take the edge off the water.  @Joannie that is excellent! I only got the metal mouth and food probs with docetaxel, not FEC.  Shows how individual this can be with some ppl having no probs and others having cheese fetishes lol.  I tried cheese twisties today but that was pushing it ... very bitey.  Yes, I had a good experience with a chocolate milkshake with ice-cream in it. 

My mouth is terrible after chemo. Everything is a big pile of salty metallic crap. I live on cold sweet stuff those first few days. I cut up a big bowl of fruit salad and that seems to do the trick, i prepare it before i have chemo or i can't be bothered and end up living on jam toast. Hungry Jacks chocolate thick shakes are amazing, not very healthy but Ooh so good