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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | John. For a little while after I had finished chemo and rad, I did not feel hungry at all. I then became hungry all the time and couldnt ever seem to get full. Im still the same way, starving all the time. Its probably due to my impaired eating ability. Sometimes if I do not eat for a while after I feel hungry I start to become ill and weak.
Keep pushing to eat as much as possible to regain your strength. You have just recently finished your treatments. Your appetite should return sometime. For some of us it can take quite a long time to bounce back, a year or more.
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  | 
