Well, I was diagnosed in September and have just finished neo adjuvant chemo and radiotherapy. They hit me as hard as they could so let’s see when I get my first scan 24 Jan. I was unable to eat or drink anything from soon after treatment started so have intestinal feeding tube. Not much fun, as I have it on all day and night pretty much. I miss eating and drinking with my wife . I am permanently hungry but every half hour or so I have the desire to expel the contents of my throat into the sink. This started with a foul liquid, then seemed to change to this glutinous sticky saliva, where it remained until last few days now it’s turned more like phlegm. Sort of greeen yellow. I haven’t dared try and eat as this hasn’t worked any other time and has caused a lot of vomiting that has seen what I attempted to eat returned over several hours, with the original taste turning somewhat foul. I am pretty fed up with this as quality of life to be fair. I do remain positive , and I shall lose my stomach and half œsophagus in the next few months and hopefully from there I can regain eating function. The chemo was full dose all the way through and the oncologist was pleasantly surprised that he didn’t need to tone it down at all as my bloods stayed good. I am 52 male and pretty active, cycling thousands of km a year type thing, though was always a tad overweight as also love eating and drinking ! Do I miss that now!!! I just wondered is any others had had similar experiences to me and were they able to eat at any stage ? Thanks for listening . Good luck to everyone else
