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Dodo
10 months agoMember
Worried I’ll overdose on salt!
Hello, I’m new here. I’ve only had one round of chemo (last Tuesday) and I’m completely weirded out by my mouth turning into a foreign entity! The only thing that seems to give me any sense of my old...
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Afraser
10 months agoMember
Ah, the unexpected joys of chemo. Some chemotherapies are, to quote my oncologist, hard on soft tissue - eyes, mouth, nose. For me that meant a bloody nose and taste buds gone west. I could not taste most foods - the conventional wisdom is something spicy (salt may count!) but that didn't work for me. The few things I could taste were all mild - like egg and avocado! Everything else was soggy cardboard. The good news is that it rarely lasts longer than the chemo. And it could be worse, a colleague had taste buds that made everything she put in her mouth taste burned! Best you can do is continue to eat well even if it gives no pleasure ( your body will be grateful, promise) and convince yourself that too much salt for what I hope is a relatively short time isn't too bad. Count down the weeks! Best wishes.
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Dodo
10 months agoMember
Thanks so much! That’s very helpful. Yep, I’ll defo be counting down the weeks!
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