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Diet issues during treatment

I’ve been obsessively observing whether there are differences in how badly I feel and what I’ve been eating.
What I’m wondering now is if eating more meat lately has anything to do with why treatment has been making me feel like crap again. Round 5-8 weren’t so bad. It’d barely hit me. When I look at my food journal, I see I’d eaten less meat and more berry varieties plus grapes the month leading up to round 5.
Then I got sick of blackberries. 🤷🏻‍♀️ And raspberries at the store were mushy. So I stopped buying them.
Grapes just gross me out sometimes. Couldn’t say why. Stopped eating those too.

Recently, I’d been on a breakfast food kick. I was making a lot of turkey bacon and sausage (I don’t eat pork). I also felt like having more steak and lumpia. And round 9 & 10 have been miserable again. Not as bad as the first few, but enough that I’m not able to just go about my day; I’m back in bed the majority of it, waiting for nausea, weakness, or pain to subside.

I think this is a major reason why the difference. That’s okay. I’m not the biggest fan of meat anyway. I go through phases when I want steaks but most of the time, I just don’t care for it. The problem is that my nails turn paper thin when I stop eating meat. I know there are protein and iron alternatives, but I’m not a fan of those either. (Funny how overbearing their smells and flavors of anything high in either are when you’re deficient).

This isn’t a post asking for suggestions. I’m going to see if eating meat is fine as long as I go back to eating more berries and grapes. I’m my own little science project. 🤭
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Gibbon · 70-79, M
Keep working on it and be thankful at least you are able to taste period. I went through chemo twice but before the first go around I had radiation in the area of my jaw and lost 100% of my taste. Literally everything was dry sawdust and waxy tasteless grease.
@Gibbon The last type of chemo did take my sense of taste at times. Food without flavor is surprisingly gross. 😅
🫂 Sorry you went through all that. That area must have been pretty painful too. 😔
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@Colonelmustardseed actually didn't have any pain through any of my treatments. It cancer in a salivary gland and lymph strand down my neck the first go round. Before treatment there was no pain. Just under 2 years later it came back in my chest 3 nodes. Non operable. No pain but noted a subtle pressure. The chemo wiped them out in 1 month but of course treatment continued. But have been in remission ever since. About 21 years. Still having taste issues but not related to that. Eating is difficult when your taste is screwed up
@Gibbon I’m glad you got through it and have been cancer-free for so long. It’s very hopeful to read. 🙂
Gibbon · 70-79, M