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I am 15 months since last Chemo/Rad. treatments for back of tongue primary that metastasized to my neck lymph nodes. My nausea was awful. My cancer team had me coming in twice a week for saline IV's because I was so dehydrated and they would inject nausea meds and steroids into my drip. It did help. I went from 180 to 130. Food was repulsive and about the only thing I could tolerate was Boost high calorie. Even that I had to guzzle just to get it down. I did those IV treatments for maybe a month or two. 15 months out I no longer have nausea, can eat anything I want ( but nothing taste good) and I have awful dry mouth and miss my taste buds. I'm back to 136. Try Xylol mouth drops for dry mouth and throat at night. Really helps. Eat slow, small bites. Peak 24gm. per pack oatmeal is great. Add blueberries and banana. Just try to eat healthy and what you can, when you can. Oncology surgeon wanted to cut the nodule out of my neck after treatments but I declined. It was full of necrotic material. They were afraid there could still be some cancer cells hiding in there but I didn't want them cutting on my neck just for a chance. Post CT scans still show no cancer cells. So a good thing. I always tell everyone the cure is worse than the disease. I do like ice cream. 🙂

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@csshman what a great response !
12 months since my last radiation treatment. I am pretty much where you are with side effects . I completely identify with having to guzzle down any flavored beverage . As many times that I have mentioned nausea , it seems to fall on deaf ears .
Good to know that there is treatments as you mentioned .
Shame on my surgeon. I have tried Xylol and yes it does help .