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Taste Buds: Does your taste for food come back?

Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: May 16 9:24am | Replies (25)

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My husband is also Stage 4 PC and his appetite had been bad but now he can at most eat a bite or two. I have tried cooking all of his favorite foods but nothing helps. He says he just can't get it down . Sometimes, he tells me it is stuck and then he ends up vomiting. The only thing I can get him to take is a milkshake . I tried the other day to use half protein shake and half milk but he told me his stomach hurt really bad afterwards so he made me promise not to do that. I have also added a raw egg just to get some protein in him. He is losing weight so rapidly that I don't know what to do.
He has metastasis to the lungs and spine and intra-abdominal as well as many enlarged lymph nodes. He had a distal pancreatectomy in July 2024 but it was already in 14 of the 20 Lymph Nodes that they removed and then they did a biopsy on some of the nodules in his lungs which confirmed metastasis there also so they put him on
Palliative Care. He has never had any Chemo or Radiation. He was doing fairly well and Oncologist said as long as it hasn't hit the Liver, he should be good.
I don't understand what has changed and what could be causing him not to be able to eat . This is so frustrating as well as heartbreaking.

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@suelannon That's a horrible feeling for your husband and you. When were his last tests/scans?

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Im so sorry you are both going thru this. It truly is beyond frustrating and heartbreaking. No chemo?? I just figured this was maybe because of the chemo - but guess this is because of the cancer itself as well. Crazy all the different symptoms that present with this cancer and treatment. Watching my husband in pain and losing weight is beyond upsetting. Which Im sure it is for you as well.