Morning all, I have seen different things on what is good to eat to help keep you going and to keep stronger, and also about drinking alcohol if you should stop all together or have 2 a day? your help is appreciated thanks in advance, Cheryl

I would suggest you eat whatever actually tastes like food through chemo. Chemo mouth is the pits and food loses it's taste. Thankfully chocolate and wine tasted the same. :)

I definitely agree with kezmusc chemo mouth is the pits. I didn't get it straight away after the 2nd dose about the same time as i started moulting. At first i though wow that wasn’t so bad. Eat healthy but what you like. I did find it wasn’t just taste but things smelled different too. But as they say. Everyone reacts differentlyI followed My treatment teams orders as best I could and looked up heaps of advise on here. Im not great with words so Instead of asking i would go to search bar First. Getting better at this posting stuff now its only taken 3 years hope everything goes well for through your chemotherapy Berchel14

@Berchel14 Many of us started chemo intending to be paragons of virtue; eating clean and green, eschewing salt, sugar and alcohol. Many of us then end up surviving on cheese toasties for months (despite gluten issues) and sneaking the odd medicinal muscat when it all gets too muchJust do the best you can. Soda water is your friend as it can fizz the grey dead stuff off your tongue, but apart from that piece of advice, you are just going to have to suck/slurp/chew your way through it. Be prepared for something you enjoyed last week to be soo disgusting and associated with mad gut pains this week that you will never touch it again. I'm talking about you, anchovy stuffed olives.

I could only tolerate baked potatoes with cheese and apples. I really stressed about not eating well as even water tasted awful. A year on I realise you just do what you have to do to get through and it will pass. Xx

Confused about eating and drinking

iserbrown
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6 years ago
The BCNA website is a wealth of information
https://www.bcna.org.au/breast-health-awareness/reducing-your-risk/
ChezaH
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6 years ago
Thank you x
kmakm
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6 years ago
Where are you in your treatment Cheryl?
ChezaH
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6 years ago
Had surgery on the 14th Feb 2020, starting chemo on wed with a cold cap x
kezmusc
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6 years ago
I would suggest you eat whatever actually tastes like food through chemo. Chemo mouth is the pits and food loses it's taste. Thankfully chocolate and wine tasted the same. :)
cranky_granny
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6 years ago
I definitely agree with kezmusc chemo mouth is the pits. I didn't get it straight away after the 2nd dose about the same time as i started moulting. At first i though wow that wasn’t so bad.
Eat healthy but what you like.
I did find it wasn’t just taste but things smelled different too.
But as they say. Everyone reacts differently
I followed My treatment teams orders as best I could and looked up heaps of advise on here. Im not great with words so Instead of asking i would go to search bar First. Getting better at this posting stuff now its only taken 3 years
hope everything goes well for through your chemotherapy Berchel14
Zoffiel
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6 years ago
@Berchel14 Many of us started chemo intending to be paragons of virtue; eating clean and green, eschewing salt, sugar and alcohol. Many of us then end up surviving on cheese toasties for months (despite gluten issues) and sneaking the odd medicinal muscat when it all gets too much

Just do the best you can. Soda water is your friend as it can fizz the grey dead stuff off your tongue, but apart from that piece of advice, you are just going to have to suck/slurp/chew your way through it. Be prepared for something you enjoyed last week to be soo disgusting and associated with mad gut pains this week that you will never touch it again. I'm talking about you, anchovy stuffed olives.
ChezaH
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6 years ago
Thank you for your feedback.x
DebsSA
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6 years ago
I could only tolerate baked potatoes with cheese and apples. I really stressed about not eating well as even water tasted awful. A year on I realise you just do what you have to do to get through and it will pass. Xx
ChezaH
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6 years ago
Thank you appreciate your help x