Dear Rosie and Heather,
Am very keen to know of your progress and have been interested in your symptoms as very simillar to mine.
I too have had nausea and vomitting from something blocking digestive tract - in retrospect I think it was a mixture of chemo(Carboplatin & 5 Fu's), constipation and poorly directed feeding tube. I have now taped my tube up towards my chest in order to point the inside section down into my stomach which worked miracles for the vomitting!(seems so obvious now). Keeping bowels moving (tough when on the morphine) seems to be a big factor with the nausea too. Hope Heather is taking more Ensure now - I'm up to 7 tins some days so have stabilized quite well.
The candida thing bothers me too - they don't know if my white tongue is due to Candida but they've given me Nystatin and Tantum mouthwashes which don't help much with foul taste. I've taken to rinsing with and sipping Aloe Vera juice/gel with ice - very refreshing if nothing else.
Am bracing self for next bout of chemo which they delayed due to severe side-effects but I shall feel better prepared this time.
Like Heather I was told that being younger would help my recovery (although I have a few years on her) but even the tube insertion was a rough ride through all my sport-fit abs!
Hope to hear good news from you,
all the best and everything is crossed for you,
Frances