Quenching my thirst during Chemo

Hi LB

I had a similar problem in that everything I drank tasted disgusting.  I swapped tea and coffee for instant hot chocolate (a low calorie version as I was putting on enough weight!).  I found fizzy water more palatable than normal water.  I also tried different cordials, eg. for a few weeks I enjoyed elderflower cordial, then lime cordial.  Heavily diluted fruit juice also worked, eg a quarter/third apple or orange juice topped up with fizzy water.

I’ve seen other people recommend tonic water or pineapple juice as they can cut through the nasty taste that chemo sometimes gives you.

Good luck with your tastebuds and the rest of your chemo!

Hi Jomor, 

Thank you so much for your recommendations. I like sparkling water so will start that straightaway but will definitely try the other recommendations. 

Thanks again. 
xx

Hi I found ocean spray's cranberry and raspberry squash quite nice along with tonic water. X

Hi I had same problems 
Try frozen grapes to cleanse tastebuds also I found no added sugar Dandilion &Burdock & cream soda  in Morrisons . For me the taste of our water was horrible after being my drink of choice . This made even tea taste horrible 
Unfortunately it really is keep trying til you find something . One trick I used to try to keep hydrated was I ate water based food Cucumber etc also lots of homemade soup especially leek and potato using water base stock .

hope you find something 

Wow just had community support message not for mental health this time but domestic abuse ?? God knows what  triggered it 

What were you suggesting to do with cucumber

Makevyiyr own lollipops and sorbet.  It's all fluid and coldness might help. 

That would be telling

it was a very informative warning explaining about silent 999 calls using 55

 No warning when I was expecting one 

I mostly manage with fizzy water and can only drink coffee first thing in the morning. I buy the individual 500ml bottles in packs of 6 or 8 and try and drink at least 2 daily.. It’s a more expensive way of doing it but I find the big bottles go flat very quickly. Unfortunately fizzy water is in short supply in some supermarkets at present so it’s a case of buy  in bulk when you see it. I also have a Berocca although the pink ones taste better for me than the orange at present. 

I have has 4 EC treatments and now just finished 3 of 12 Pactlixel. The taste problem is getting progressively worse but my mouth does not seem quite so dry on the Pactlixel.

I hope you find something that helps. There are lots of good suggestions on here x

I found that almond milk tastes good.....x