Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Try Carnation Instant Breakfast VHC. It has 560 nutritional balanced calories in a 8 oz can and will cut the misery and the time in feedings. You can order it thru your pharmacy dept but you don't need a prescrip for it but some have suggested that if you get a prescription for it, your insurance company will pick up the tab. I only paid about $32.00 per 24 can case at Walgreens. That's only $8.00 a day for 3360 calories. You can also order it online from Amazon and if you go thru Oral Cancer Foundation we get a kickback.
I lived on that stuff well into my 2nd year of recovery. During Tx that's all I drank, other than water and post Tx I drank a can mixed half and half with whole milk with each meal to make sure I was getting all the calories and nutrition I needed since eating was soooo boring.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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