 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Chris,
you will need to experiment. All of out taste buds respond differently to treatment (as well as everything else). I found that I could taste coffee the whole time so I made a lot of coffee flavored milk shakes.
Constipation is a major problem. I would start out with the over the counter stuff (laxatives - like Colace), talk to the nutritionist and have the doctors manage it if that fails. This issue caused me more misery than anything else (well the mouth sores were pretty bad).
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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