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SBRT treatment: Any tips about food, drink, supplements?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 8 10:26am | Replies (17)Comment receiving replies
I was told to avoid taking any supplements at all during SBRT except for a daily multivitamin and, even then, to not take more than 100% of the RDA of any vitamin or mineral. I was also given a list of foods to avoid during treatment. I was told to chew my food very well, and only eat cooked vegetables and not raw. The list of foods I was told to avoid was:
Asparagus
Beer
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Corn
Dried beans, peas, and other legumes (cooked OK)
Garlic
Leeks
Milk and other dairy products with lactose (if lactose-intolerant)
Onions
Prunes
Carbonated (fizzy) drinks, such as sodas and sparkling waters.
Sugar alcohols, such as xylitol, sorbitol, and mannitol. Sugar-free foods often have sugar alcohols.
Hope this helps and that your treatment goes well!
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@gshep My SBRT treatment is probably ahead of yours. Mine is from April 9 to 21.
@scottbeammeup Thank you for list of foods to avoid. I didn't have that. But I got instructions to "eat many small meals and snacks throughout the day" and "avoid caffeine (coffee, tea) and carbonated drinks. Avoid sugarless gum and candies with sorbitol -- acts like a laxative."
@gshep I was told to stop taking my herbal drink. My radiation oncologist started me 10 days ago on Orgovyx and vitamin D. I asked by email if I can also take calcium, but I'm still waiting for response. I will ask again when I see my RO in person.
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I posted a reply about supplements and see scottbeammeup brought up the foods and drinks.
This too was gone over with me prior to start of treatments. Biggest issue with foods is gas. Gas in the rectum you do not want. It can move your prostate at the very time it is needed to have it in a proper position and not moving.
I can really post my experience with this one. I was told to keep up my protein so started to do a powder supplement and did not think about it. Then the next time I came in for my radiation treatment and they did the low dose xray to find my markers and set up paramters my prostate had moved. So they came in and moved me around saying I had gas in my rectum. They wound up having to move me around several times as the gas was moving my prostate.
Then they said did I eat any of the items (the list) and I said no. They went I got home I looked at my protein supplement and was from soy beans. I told my techs next time when I came in and they said yep that was it as you look good today.
So if you do what I did and take a powder or supplement make sure it is not on a food list that causes gas.