And speaking of steak...what foods do you miss the most?

yensid683

Sour Candies

I have a raging sweet-tooth and just about any sour candy (sweetarts, lemon heads, sour patch kids etc) are just impossible.  I miss them but then again items like this are not - technically speaking - all that good for me, especially teeth.

Having said that, I'm back to normal for just about any food.  Some pose much more challenge than others and you would think they would.  Cake is tough to do because it acts like a sponge and soaks up almost all of the spit yet potato chips (real ones, not the healthier (?) baked ones) work fairly well.

The journey back to 'normal' is long but it is a road that can be travelled.  Yes, you will have challenges, for some more than most, but for a lucky few less than all.  While we are all different in our diagnosis, treatment plan and recoveries, we all progress at our own rate and as I've seen posted elsewhere, it seems that one morning we realize that stuff works that didn't used to.

Abi is more than welcome at my house

donfoo

stevenpepe said:

I am really discouraged by

I am really discouraged by those posting they still have trouble eating months after treatment ends. Is this the norm because I am already struggling to eat and I have 9 sessions to go.

very typical

Steve,

Nearly everyone doing rad treatment ends up with their mouth and throat area really sore and find eating becomes painful and without any taste. It becomes a job and witout any joy. You are entering the "rough" zone. From now until about a month post rads, eating is going to be difficult. 

It does get better, just take each day and meal as best you can. Remember, the journey has different milestones and the one posted end of treatment, does not mean pain and suffering with lessen at that point. A month is often used as the typical period where side effects continue getting worse.

Just be prepared for some rough road ahead, focus on each day, and just tuck away the knowledge that things will improve. Hang in there, don

stevenpepe

donfoo said:

very typical

Steve,

Nearly everyone doing rad treatment ends up with their mouth and throat area really sore and find eating becomes painful and without any taste. It becomes a job and witout any joy. You are entering the "rough" zone. From now until about a month post rads, eating is going to be difficult. 

It does get better, just take each day and meal as best you can. Remember, the journey has different milestones and the one posted end of treatment, does not mean pain and suffering with lessen at that point. A month is often used as the typical period where side effects continue getting worse.

Just be prepared for some rough road ahead, focus on each day, and just tuck away the knowledge that things will improve. Hang in there, don

Thanks, Don. I am

Thanks, Don. I am anticipating getting through July hating life. My last treatment is June 30th. Hopefully, August will see better days for me.

Duggie88

Taste

They told me not to force yourself to eat your favorite foods becausae they could become so dicusting you will never reegain your taste for it. It took over a year to gain my taste back for brown licorice which was one of my fav candies. Same with peasnut M&M's. I use to like breakfast sausage and never really got my taste back. I can eat it but it just ain't the same. I reagined my taste for coffee about 4 to 5 months after radiation was complete, I couldn't stand the taste or the smell of it brewing two weeks into treatments and even got the dry heives when the smell hit me.

We are all different, I still noticed changes 3 years out. Hang in there.

Life is good

      Jeff

SusanUES

Duggie, I think that's a wise comment...

You really set yourself up for failure if you try to compare your faves before and after.  Everything I ate...or attempted to eat...was an adventure.  A year out, I've accepted the complete loss of ability to eat many things but am ever so slowly developing an appreciation for new things.  Chilled cucumber soup, watermelon salad with fresh mint, peach salsa...things I probably would never have eaten before.  So the eating becomes less of a chore than a food adventure every day.  Sunday we went out to a Persian restaurant and I was longing for beef kebobs but knew it wasn't gonna happen...so I settled for shrimp kebobs and that was pretty good.  Never liked shrimp before but it's okay now.  Trial and error!

kdot2003

I MISS Chocolate and

I MISS Chocolate and especially BROWNIES!!!