Daily Calorie intake

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  • louiethetzu
    louiethetzu Member Posts: 17
    #22
    phrannie51 said:

    I only did 3 a day also....

    I was using Boost VHC (very high calorie) which has 530 calories each.....so with those my calories were almost 1600 a day and still only having to do 3 to get those calories in.  I also used milk to thin it so it'd go down the tube easier.  I too am pretty small (5'1" and 97 lbs), and you're right....we don't hold as much as the big guys. 

    Maybe try the VHC (I ordered mine off of Amazon.com by the case).....she won't have to increase the number of cartons she takes in, but it will really up her calories.

    http://www.amazon.com/Boost-Lactose-Free-Vanilla-Brikpaks/dp/B007W7RELW

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    How was it when you started to eat again?

    Hi Phranne51, did you have to undergo swallowing therapy to start eating again? My fiance was diagnosed with stage iv nasopharyngeal carcinoma in June and he received chemotherapy and radiation for two months. He lost the ability to eat very quickly and so he had to get a peg tube. He stopped eating at the end of July and he is yet to start eating again...he starts therapy next week but he is very worried how effective therapy will be and how soon he will be able to eat again. He's starting to crave food and its driving him crazy. How was it when you started eating again? Did it take long? 

  • phrannie51
    phrannie51 Member Posts: 4,716
    #23
    louiethetzu said:

    How was it when you started to eat again?

    Hi Phranne51, did you have to undergo swallowing therapy to start eating again? My fiance was diagnosed with stage iv nasopharyngeal carcinoma in June and he received chemotherapy and radiation for two months. He lost the ability to eat very quickly and so he had to get a peg tube. He stopped eating at the end of July and he is yet to start eating again...he starts therapy next week but he is very worried how effective therapy will be and how soon he will be able to eat again. He's starting to crave food and its driving him crazy. How was it when you started eating again? Did it take long? 

    I also had NPC....stage III....

    I quit swallowing all nutrition on July 3rd 2012.....tho I did sip on L-glutamine everyday to keep my swallower going (I was very scared of losing it)....I had my last radiation in June, and my last chem the end of August.

    I think I finally started eating soup about mid October.....not a whole lot....like a can would last me all day, and I'd just keep going back to it and warming it up. 

    I'm over a year out, now....and I'm still a big soup eater....it's the easiest thing I can find.

    p

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