My fried taste buds think that water tastes like pond scum...from some really vile saltwater pond.

My friends have been dropping off every different brand of water they can find in the hope that one will have a taste profile I can stand. Six-packs and cases of water are stacked on our kitchen counter and floor, each with one bottle missing.

It's making it impossible to get 64 oz of fluid a day, since the taste triggers nausea and retching.

Any suggestions for doctoring it up or alternate beverages that work during the late phase of chemorads?

Thanks for any and all ideas!

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T3N2aM0 HPV+
5/26/13 discovered painless superball-sized lymph node in neck
6/26/13 DX SCC R palatine tonsil
7/16/13 TORS tonsillectomy & selective ND, mets to 2 nodes
9/3/13 Cisplatin and rads begin, tolerated 1.5 of 3 planned chemo doses
10/16/13 Treatment ends
Dec 13 Ulcer appears at surgery site
Jan 17 Biopsy -- no cancer!
Feb 17 CT/PET Scan lights up tonsil bed & nasal cavity, docs say probably inflammation, don't panic, rescan when ulcer subsides