Struggling with post radiation treatment side effects: Comfort care?

I have not tried plain formula . Red to ask my dietitian. No problem with bowel movements .

@ernierogersquamus123 Awesome! this is what I use it's very gentle on my stomach, after trying 2 different formulas from the same company. I know my dietitian works with 3 different companies. Keep up updated. 😉 Have a happy, safe, bless day and weekend. 🙂

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Connie
Oregon

@ernierogersquamus123 I think we all want to feel better quickly after cancer. Unfortunately, that usually doesn't happen. The treatments affect each patient uniquely and the remedies are also unique in that what works for one doesn't necessarily work for all or even one other.
In my case as in many other patients here on Connect, it takes years to get to a place where one feels "normal". And this isn't usually the old normal. It is often a new normal. It is hard to say that the point of normalcy is where we stop improving or where we just get used to our maladies. For example, here I sit twenty-six years out with a painfully sore gum, the result of having my mandible rebuilt, the result of the tissue continuing to grow around my prosthesis and being irritated until once per year I have the excess tissue ablated, which will happen next month. Very annoying but I learned to ignore this for the past five years, best I can.
I hope you start feeling better soon. The nausea you have might need to be seen by a gut doctor. It could be anything from a bile duct issue to a chemical imbalance to lack of good gut bacteria. Time seems to be the best healer unless there is something medically wrong that needs repair. Just because you had cancer doesn't mean you can't have another issue. Courage.

Thanks for your feedback .
I’m beginning to to think that it is a sin to want to feel better .

@ernierogersquamus123 I think we all want to feel better quickly after cancer. Unfortunately, that usually doesn't happen. The treatments affect each patient uniquely and the remedies are also unique in that what works for one doesn't necessarily work for all or even one other.
In my case as in many other patients here on Connect, it takes years to get to a place where one feels "normal". And this isn't usually the old normal. It is often a new normal. It is hard to say that the point of normalcy is where we stop improving or where we just get used to our maladies. For example, here I sit twenty-six years out with a painfully sore gum, the result of having my mandible rebuilt, the result of the tissue continuing to grow around my prosthesis and being irritated until once per year I have the excess tissue ablated, which will happen next month. Very annoying but I learned to ignore this for the past five years, best I can.
I hope you start feeling better soon. The nausea you have might need to be seen by a gut doctor. It could be anything from a bile duct issue to a chemical imbalance to lack of good gut bacteria. Time seems to be the best healer unless there is something medically wrong that needs repair. Just because you had cancer doesn't mean you can't have another issue. Courage.

@cskippy I am living on Glucerna now for at least 4 1/2 years through my peg tube. My soft palate hangs down lower from the surgery and I am producing mucous above my palate 24/7 which has to be hocked or snorted out so I don't choke on it..Not sure if the mucous is lymph fluids from the 33 lymph nodes taken out from the left side of my neck.