Foods to eat during chemo

zsazsa1 said:

On the food front, the first

On the food front, the first round, the only thing I wanted to eat was Fettucine Alfredo. But a single serving from the Cheesecake Factory lasted me for two days - and that was ALL I ate.  Another round I craved rare red meat.  Scrambled eggs with cheese were the only thing I could stomach in the mornings.  This latest round it was flounder Francese style (drenched in egg and flour, sauteed in butter, with a lemon butter sauce).  I acquired a taste for salt on foods (usually I don't, due to high blood pressure).  Most rounds I really couldn't eat much the first week, lost over 5 lbs the first week each time, then gained it back as soon as I started eating again. Overall I lost weight during the first few rounds, now I'm gaining it back with the last rounds.  After this is all over, I'm going to have to go on a diet.  But it's really hard to diet when you are so nauseated as I was (just like pregnancy, when I had horrible nausea the entire 9 months each time), and you're trying to calm your stomach with starchy foods.

Made me hungry reading all the foods you were craving lol. I wasn't  bothered with nausea  during my pregnancy and hopefully  it  won't  be too bad. Thank you for all the information  

Ribbons said:

Eating

I know different places have differing methods, here was what mine did. First I was given both a short acting anti nausea thing (IV through the port) then a long lasting one and also a Benadryl. Then the chemo, Carbo for 3 hours and Taxol for 30 minutes. They want you to eat lunch while you are there, I was fine with that. At home I had Lorazapam, which I only tried once, and Prochlorper which I used a bit for the first couple of days. Then the ondansetron after that. The iv stuff they gave me interferes with ondansetron for the first 2 days and basically cancel each other out. I felt really icky but never threw up. I could not stand water for about 3 days, it tasted like rusty nails. I could drink V 8 and apple cider and ginger ale. I could eat soup, beef veg or chicken veg. After the first 2 or 3 days I liked things like lasagna, sphagetti and meat. I found that It made no difference to my stomach if I ate, it didn’t make me feel worse. I did like watermelon, and my life saver is a brand of yogurt called Zoi, honey flavor, best yogurt ever! If you get a sore mouth, mix 1/4 tsp baking soda and 1/8 tsp salt in a glass of warm water and rinse your mouth, luckily I only had to do this once after the first round, after that my mouth was fine

Thank you Ribbons for the advice not sure how they will  do it with  the  chemo  kind of hoping they will  do  whatever  needs to be done to lesson the side effects to the chemo planning on getting a variety of things to eat. Watermelon,  yogurt, juices. If you had a port how long for it to heal before they start using it? Maybe  a week. Have a blessed  day 

Ribbons said:

Port

My port was put in 3 days before chemo

Did your port heal up pretty quick. I guess mine is sore because there is thin skin and muscle area

Tamlen said:

Healed quickly, hurt a little for a while

My port was put in a week before chemo started. The incision healed quickly but the port ached and/or burned a bit here and there for a few weeks. After that I stopped even thinking about it being there. Hope that happens for you too!

Hi Tamlen yes I hope my port stops burning too. It's  just 5 days so by next week  I should feel ok. Have a blessed  day