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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Pattie, Im so very sorry you are having so many of the awful after effects from your treatments. To me it sounds like its a viscous circle where everything that helps is a struggle.
Will a feeding tube make it easier for you to take in more calories? Are you able to drink the Boost Very High Calorie? If I remember correctly, the BVHC has over 500 calories per individual drink so you would get a couple hundrd more each time you drink one. You probably dont see it in carried in very many stores. It can be purchased thru the Amazon box on the right ----->
When someone goes thru what you have, gaining weight usually takes several years. Your body has so much to do to recover that it takes a very long time. Even if you take in 4000 or 5000 calories a day, your body is still burning up calories at a super high speed trying to rebuild itself. So even with those many calories daily you probably will not gain weight. It took me from Sept 2007 when I finished my rads until the end of last year to begin gaining any weight.
Best wishes with everything you are dealing with!!!
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
