Hello

Hi Jacqui - the rotten taste is awfulm I just had my fourth and final dose of chemo and this time the taste has lingered - I got  sick of lollies and ginger so my hubby went out and bought me some Tic Tacs - these seem to keep the 'taste' at bay - at least they are smaller and you can just keep 'popping' them - one of the new flavours is like the old fashioned 'Stimerol' chewy - quite potent and has a kick to knock your mouth out of your head as you get to the last suck!  They flavour is Tic Tac 'Intensity' (appropriatley named!) and should help somewhat.  I hope this helps you out - I got the aches and pains terribly on my 3rd chemo, and they hospitalised me for the final one because they didn't know if it was from the chemo - or the white blood cell injection or whether I was having a heart attack (hopefully not the latter!) any way I pulled through ok this time around, and have started my Herceptin - soon to commence radiotherapy.  I was devestated by Amanda's news -really made me sit up!  Any way, good luck - try the Tic Tac 'Intensity" (trust me, it will take your mind off the awful 'metal mouth'! Cheers Josie x x x