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← Return to Eating after an esophagectomy
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Esophageal Cancer | Last Active: May 22 7:11am | Replies (22)
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Seems like exact same road. I got j tube about 3 weeks ago, first chemo session is tomorrow (got the port a week ago) then surgery in mid-late July and my tumor is in the exact same place.
Did chemo help to reduce the tumor for you before surgery so you could drink fluids again? I can only take tiny sips here and there currently so staying on top of hydration has been a challenge...currently doing 100ml flushes every hour on my feeding tube on a 12-13 hour feeding cycle (so 1200ml from that). Still have another 25+ oz of fluids I need to take in and it's brutal, I just cannot get them down.
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I had very little trouble before surgery I actually went looking for reason why occasionally I had trouble swallowing... did not use j tube until after surgery. I fasted on the days I had chemo... the day of treatment, the day after while I had a chemo pump attached to me, and the third day when I had the pump removed. This was every other week. Oncologist said at the last PET scan before surgery, he had never seen a tumor shrink that small... I'm extremely low/no carb