Alcohol after treatment is anybody still drinking?

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  • Jimbo55
    Jimbo55 Member Posts: 590 Member
    #42
    pascotty said:

    Hey jimbo
    Sorry mate I wasn't directing that at you. I was just having a moment of frustration. The hardest thing is watching everyone around you doing and eating and drinking all these things without a care in the world. I enjoy the post and questions and love reading the responses. I don't know the answer to your question and I don't believe anyone else does. They are all calculated guesses. I have made dramatic changes to my diet and lifestyle. I'm glad I did. Then other times I miss my old lifestyle tastebuds and saliva. Cheers my friend. Jen xxxx

    Jen
    No worries Jen, It's all good. Cheers

    Jimbo
  • alwaysforhim
    alwaysforhim Member Posts: 14
    #43
    alwaysforhim said:

    morbid obesity
    King,
    I was reading your comments, and I was wondering how do you feel when you see a morbid obese person eat? They are also putting their health in jeopardy. Please don't take me wrong, I understand your frustration, but we wouldn't understand unless we are there. Pretty much everything my spouse enjoyed before cancer has been taken from him. He was an active scuba diver, but due to energy, and lack of saliva he hasn't been able to do it for months. So if him enjoying a wine cooler once in awhile makes him happy, then let him enjoy it.

    I truly do apologize
    King, I am so sorry! In no way was my comments meant to be towards you. I sincerely apologize if it seemed to be. My statement was just trying to make a parallel, not a personal dig.
  • Dave B
    Dave B Member Posts: 7
    #44
    Drinking after treatment
    Scottied, My onc said no smoking but drinking in moderation was OK. My bane is metastasized paraganglioma (carotid body). I've had a couple of palliative rad sessions to get rid of lower back pain. After the second one, my taste for alcohol evaporated. I used to have at least one beer after work every day. Now it's rare to have one a month. My new normal, I guess.
  • stevenl
    stevenl Member Posts: 587
    #45
    Dave B said:

    Drinking after treatment
    Scottied, My onc said no smoking but drinking in moderation was OK. My bane is metastasized paraganglioma (carotid body). I've had a couple of palliative rad sessions to get rid of lower back pain. After the second one, my taste for alcohol evaporated. I used to have at least one beer after work every day. Now it's rare to have one a month. My new normal, I guess.

    Drinking
    Hi everyone,

    This one is a tough one for me. I still drink beer, about 30 cans a week, and I am not ashamed of myself at all. My docs told me not to smoke any more and I don't. People can judge me all they want. When someone says they just can't understand why anyone would take the chance, well they don't know me do they.

    Cancer has taken a lot from me. I am, was, a bricklayer but the sacrificed nerve to my right shoulder won't ever allow me to do that again. I can only thank God that I am a supervisor, but if I ever had to I wouldn't be able to lay brick. This is my livelihood we are talking about, the job I have done for the last 39 years. Cancer has taken my strength, but hopefully I will regain it. I am working hard on that. It has taken smoking away from me. I was a lifetime smoker, drinker. I am also on anti depressants and this really angers me. If I stop taking the damn things I quickly become very hard to get along with.

    I am not drinking because of the things cancer has taken away from me, or because I am weak minded, it was just part of my life and I asked my docs about it. They said in moderation, but I probably drank 60 to75 cans a week before C. So what is moderation for me? I also smoked 2 1/2 to 3 packs a day. So when your opinion makes you form a conclusion about someone and their habits when you don't even know them, look out! You are judging that person.

    Happy new year to everyone!!!
    Steve
  • Shellysa
    Shellysa Member Posts: 12
    #46
    I still drink wine
    I still drink wine daily....perhaps 2-3 glasses. I wasn't able to drink it during radiation due to the burning, etc. I used a straw for a couple of months after treatment to prevent the wine from touching the area burned by the radiation. My Dr. didn't tell me to quit...he said the combination of alcohol and smoking was a risk factor but alcohol alone wouldn't cause it....if it did, there would be a world-wide epidemic!
  • tonyanddenise
    tonyanddenise Member Posts: 70
    #47
    still drinking?
    I have tried all my old favorites, Crown on the rocks feels like acid eating my flesh, carbonated beverages even coca cola hurt bad. I love a good Cabernet or Merlot with a steak! Painful... sad yet true.
    For the record my ent who did my R.N.D. said that the most common causes for H&N.Ca. were smoking and drinking for years. then later said (he has prostate Ca.) after we get through this we should meet for a couple of drinks ! moderation wont hurt me. I saw both of his partners in his practice, one conceded that the smoking had caused my Ca. the other said I simply drew the short straw. Go figure. I have not smoked since my diagnoses. My urge to drink is a lot like eating. sometimes I want something but it simply hurts more than the benefit from the desire.
  • donna340
    donna340 Member Posts: 72
    #48
    kingcole42005 said:

    Why would someone drink
    Why would someone drink when they are specifically told not to by their doctor? It's like watching my father pickup a cigarette while watching him drown in his own fluids from COPD, or a heart patient eating a cube of butter. Isn't it similar to choosing not to have radiation or chemo, even though you know it could kill you? If you can't give up alcohol and it may cause you to have cancer again, maybe you have a problem and some kind of program will help. I don't know, this is just nuts to me.

    Agree!
    I agree with you kingcole42004. Smoking and drinking our just not in our cards.
  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #49
    tonyanddenise said:

    still drinking?
    I have tried all my old favorites, Crown on the rocks feels like acid eating my flesh, carbonated beverages even coca cola hurt bad. I love a good Cabernet or Merlot with a steak! Painful... sad yet true.
    For the record my ent who did my R.N.D. said that the most common causes for H&N.Ca. were smoking and drinking for years. then later said (he has prostate Ca.) after we get through this we should meet for a couple of drinks ! moderation wont hurt me. I saw both of his partners in his practice, one conceded that the smoking had caused my Ca. the other said I simply drew the short straw. Go figure. I have not smoked since my diagnoses. My urge to drink is a lot like eating. sometimes I want something but it simply hurts more than the benefit from the desire.

    HPV+
    From a lot of what I have read, HPV+ will more than likely over take tobacco related H&N cancer within the next ten years or so....

    JG

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