15 months after chemotherapy (capox)

FormerMember over 4 years ago

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Hi, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 Bowel cancer in September 2019. Bowel resection on October and chemotherapy started in December 2019. The nausea was very difficult to manage throughtout and the changes in taste pretty immediate. 15 months later and I still feel nauseous and my mouth continues have a metallic taste. Any suggestions on how to manage this? Has anyone else had these effects lasting this long? Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

court over 4 years ago

Thats really interesting you should say that as my mum reports the same taste that she had during chemo . Metallic. I actually think she was having acid reflux but not enough to notice the symptoms too much but was resulting in the taste etc . The GP had actually given her medicine but she was forgetting to take it .

Once she took it , it did seem to help ! Might be worth having a chat with your team to see if they think other things could be contributing to it . I think chemo was just plan harsh on her digestive tract.
Obviously might be totally different reason for yours but might be worthwhile asking your GP about it .

Take care ,

Court

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FormerMember over 4 years ago in reply to court

Thank you, I will. My colorectal Consultant is also going to contact the Oncology team.