I just finished my 19th treatment and all water tastes terrible. My water at home used to taste fine. When that started tasting

By the 19th Tx I couldn't bear anything but room temp anything and nothing tasted good so I just swallowed whatever I could, whenever I could or felt like it.

Hang in there.

Dannon Spring Water is the only water Mike can drink. We have good tap water, he can't tolerate it either. Could not tolerate Aquafina, or any other brand of water but Dannon.

Orange Gatorade was the next drink of choice for my husband next to water during treatment.
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Funny how it all hits us differently. I could only drink very cold Aquafina and that was it. I remember trying to explain this to my wife when she came home with Ozarka and it didn't make sense then. Now I can drink any water.

I was the same as Tim. It had to be bone cold, and bottled. Tap water wouldn't work. I still like it cold the best, but I can drink the tap water at home O.K., although it still doesn't taste quite right
Wayne

Maybe it would help to drink water through a straw?

Mine had to be ice cold and only brand was Great Bear. Everything else burned including tap water. Try the bottled water in the radiation dept and if that tastes good, maybe you can buy that brand.

Take care,
Eileen

You guys do realize that "Aquafina" is nothing more than local municipal tap water that has been filtered. H20 is H20, only finely developed taste buds are going to be able to detect the subtle differences in bottled water and I'm talking about the good stuff like Fiji or Pellegrino. Radiated taste buds are not going to have the ability to make that distinction.

For what it's worth I drank 12 oz bottles of Calistoga, sold in the economy 35 packs (mainoly out of convenience). Now I have a hot and cold water dispenser and buy water in bulk using my own reusable 5 gallon containers (6 bucks at Walmart) from Safeway, which merely filters the tap water and it tastes just fine and is only 33c a gallon. I also eliminated a lot of plastic from the waste stream.

For what it is worth Gary, taste was not my problem. It was what irritated the mouth the least and that I think had to do with what trace minerals deposits were in the water. I'm on city water which is good water, but couldn't hack it during radiation. I'm not into designer water, but did find bottled water from certain springs more tolerable than others. I buy mine at 87c a gallon to eliminate plastic from waste.

Eileen