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Thanks for the tip. I’ve been eating chocolate pudding but getting tired of that too. Protein drinks, milk, Nestle Quick and protein powder mixed in a blender.
I’ve just started taking vitamin C a couple days ago and was able to eat a Sausage McMuffin this morning with chocolate milk. Doesn’t seem like a big deal but first thing I could eat in I long while. Still couldn’t taste it but baby steps.
McMuffin on the menu tomorrow. Ordered Balance of Nature too, the one one tv, probably a scam, but might as well try it, wasn’t crazy about vegetables even before I was sick.
Everyone, we may be all on deferent types and doses of chemo and are bodies are all different so do what works for you. Chemo gets progressively worse, at least it did for me. Lucky for me it was the taste.
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The changes in appeal of foods is striking. I used to cook chicken all the time, now chicken has no appeal. I do eat it. Beef has been much more appealing. I used to eat chocolate like it was one of the four basic food groups, suddenly no appeal at all. I have pancreatic cancer and I found that when I started with pancreatic enzymes (Creon), my appetite improved and I started enjoying food again. Such as blessing. It was hard to "force feed" myself. I am much more active these days and my weight has dropped some so I will need to work on increasing my calories. I am trying to add in MCT oil to boost my calories. It is absorbed without pancreatic enzymes. I was lucky to have a dietician who specializes in patients with hepatobiliary disorders, mostly pancreatic cancers. I am seen at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and they seemed to have all sorts of dieticians for different types of cancers.