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Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Feb 29 7:08am | Replies (47)

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ok i know this is gonna sound weird to yall but i don't feel normal sitting and doing nothing...i've been way too active for too many people for too many years to be content "resting" and doing nothing and tbh i'm starting to wonder if i wouldn't be better off pushing myself to drop dead exhaustion. Its almost like if i'm busy doing things i don't have time to think about what is happening esp this metallic taste that is literally driving me bonkers...i've never been a "hard candy" person and honestly food is anything but appealing atm i'll eat 3 or 4 or 5 bites of anything and i'm done...anything more and i feel like i want to throw it back up.....and i'm wondering if that is because all of a sudden my caloric burning has dropped to about nothing...i've been forcing myself to eat a couple bites of something every hour or two even if its only a few berries..no i don't have massive amts of energy and that trip i took yesterday wore me out and i STILL struggled going to sleep which is not normal either...even my vet friends swear i could drop to sleep with the best of the them at the drop of a hat and have been asked if i was sure i was never in the infantry... but i noticed yesterday while i was busy doing things outdoors and so forth it distracted me and computer and phone games just don't work the same way for distractions, nor does crocheting or latchhooking or whatever... surely i'm not the only person out there that feels this way....am i?

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I'm so sorry you are going through so much. Understatement.
Re metallic taste. Some of it will still be there. But I found a way to help with meals using plastic utensils. Cuts way down on added metallic taste from fork or spoon. Or now, we can get wooden or hemp cutlery. I also ate what I could - eg packaged mac and cheese (in Canada M&M) - shepherd's pie. Just have to be nuked. Not as nourishing maybe as homemade - but very good, goes down easily, tasty, and given the amount of drinking water and juice needed to flush out chemo, my body needed salt ... so a little extra salt in prepared food isn't a bed thing if it gets us eating.