SOme patients get thru it very easily without too many issues while others suffer greatly. Your age will help you to be one of the lucky ones who should have an easier time of it. Plus you should be able to recover quicker being a younger patient.

The best advice I can give you is to work on taking in at least 2500 calories and 48 oz of water every single day. Dont skimp even for a day. That leads to a viscous cycle of playing catch up and its really not possible to ever fully catch up to where you should be. The catch up will lead to malnutrition and dehydration which will land you in the hospital. Im speaking from experience as it happened to me, several times. So by controlling your intake it will help you to get thru treatments much easier. You do not want to lose weight as it is a sign that you arent taking in enough. In fact, right now if you can pack on a few extra pounds it wouldnt be a bad idea. How well you do has a direct connection on how well you do with nutrition and hydration. I cant stress this enough!!! If you can take more than 2500 calories daily and 48 oz of water, do it. Even 3000 or 3500 calories arent too much as your body will be dealing with alot and need the extra calories.

Hang in there and work on the nutrition and hydration. That should be your top priority for now, well even for the next year. Stick with us and we will help you thru this. Dont be afraid to research things and use this forum and the main OCF pages to educate your self. An informed patient will be able to advocate for themselves. Plus we will help you along the way.

Good luck!!!!