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What foods did you manage to eat while on chemotherapy?

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Weirdconditionaltense · 23/04/2026 17:09

What food did you enjoy, or at least manage to eat while on chemo?

I'm on day 4 after my first session of chemo. The nausea was quite bad this morning and comes and goes but no food appeals. Have now started the new anti-sickness pills so hoping they will keep the nausea at bay but no food or drinks really appeal. Tea doesn't taste right, nor coffee, nor squash. Just water left I suppose

Can you please share with me what you did manage or eat please?

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Weirdconditionaltense · Yesterday 16:27

SunnyValemin · 27/04/2026 13:40

I couldn't stomach tea or anything other than water apart from lemon barley water - also helps with making it sting less when you go for a wee.

I also ate a lot of tinned ravioli. Just felt like a proper meal at times when I couldn't stomach anything else, and easy to chew so didn't hurt my mouth ulcers too much.

My oncologist told me not to worry too much about it - just eat whatever I could, make sure I had calories going in.

Good luck with the rest of your treatment, it will soon be a distant memory!

Thanks Sunny,..just to be sure, are you saying drinking water helps with the sting of pee ? Not the barley water or tea ?.

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Weirdconditionaltense · Yesterday 20:04

Maddy70 · 27/04/2026 15:32

I was very lucky apart from a few occasions I didn't feel nauseous. However foods tasted different. I wanted strong flavours. Curries, chilli etc
Please ask your oncologist for better anti nausea drugs

Thanks Maddy. Yes I am definitely going to be asking about alternative anti-nausea meds. The metacloprimide has been working ok-ish in stopping the nausea but was giving me diarrhoea so I want to try something better next time..

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Weirdconditionaltense · Yesterday 20:11

namechange0998776554799000 · 23/04/2026 17:57

In terms of anti sickness meds, this is what I learned: I was prescribed Aprepitant before every chemo, it is very strong and really helped me. Not sure if it's only prescribed for certain types of chemo.

Metaclopramide can sometimes cause diarrhoea/faster digestion and ondanestron can cause constipation/slow down digestion. I used to be prescribed both and had to keep the quantities in check to try & balance things. Be guided by your Dr/nurse/pharmacist and follow their advice. I just found it useful having this knowledge in the back of my mind!

I was also prescribed cyclizine later on, that could make me a bit spacey but worked well. There were also other options that were mentioned that I didn't end up needing.

Again I hope you won't need any of this, but just be aware there are lots of options you can discuss/ask for if you need them.

Hi Name change, thanks for your post. I have just looked up aprepitant. It seems to be good for delayed nausea,- I don't see how you know if it's delayed or not, Is that a stupid question? Also can I ask if you were taking carboplatin please?

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SunnyValemin · Yesterday 20:16

Weirdconditionaltense · Yesterday 16:27

Thanks Sunny,..just to be sure, are you saying drinking water helps with the sting of pee ? Not the barley water or tea ?.

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Sorry, I was unclear. The lemon barley helps with stinging when you pee. I found the Robinson's one was the best. I could only drink that and water tbh, occasionally a lucozade sport.

namechange0998776554799000 · Yesterday 21:34

Weirdconditionaltense · Yesterday 20:11

Hi Name change, thanks for your post. I have just looked up aprepitant. It seems to be good for delayed nausea,- I don't see how you know if it's delayed or not, Is that a stupid question? Also can I ask if you were taking carboplatin please?

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Hi, no I was on escalated beacoppdac which is a really strong chemo for lymphoma, I think aprepitant is given as standard before that chemo because it's very hard on the stomach and I had to take it an hour before the infusion. I was also taking all the other drugs I mentioned so to be honest it's hard to know what was working at what point! It's probably best just to discuss it with your team, mention the possibilities you've heard of on here and be guided by them. There might be interactions or side effects they need to take into account - sorry I'm not familiar with carboplatin specifically

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