"Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 | My husband was on 6 cans of Nutren 2.0 which has 500 calories a can. It seems most males need at least 3000 calories to maintain weight. Dan didn't get more than 4 cans in most of the time as he also had problems with fullness and acid reflux, so he still lost 50 lbs. I think you need to talk to a nutritionist if you haven't already. God bless and take care, Debbie
Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.
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