|  | 
  | |        |   |   |  |   |  Joined:  Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) |   |   Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) 
 Joined:  Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 |  Hi Connie! It's great to see you here and learn everyhting is going well after your BC treatment.  My appetite is certainly not what it was but I have to really struggle to swallow too. If I have a big bowl of creamy soup with protein poweer or whatever--soemthing that's maybe around 450 calories, I feel stuffed and have a hard time wanting to take the effort to eat the other 200 calories that should be a part of each meal (if I eat 3 meals a day). I also have a chronically inflamed and sensitive tongue, though, and so I have always thought that that that was as  much of the issue as appetite is.  My tongie is always little more sore than normal after eating.
 Still, even if I could eat normally and didn't have the mouth pain I suspect I would get to feeling full very quickly compared to the old me.
 
 Nelie
   SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia.  "When you're going through hell, keep going"
 |  |  |      |      | Forums23 Topics18,279 Posts197,205 Members13,413 |  | Most Online2,371Sep 11th, 2025
 |  |  | 
 | 
  |    |