Not eating

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Not sure if I am duplicating this on another part of the site, but  my husband (77) was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer about a year ago.  He has multiple bone mets throughout the skeleton and whilst initially on Firmagon (hormone therapy), he has changed to Prostap as he had too much pain from the first. 

He has bladder incontinence which is manageable by wearing pads but has been having often uncontrollable diarrhea every day for nearly four months.  He has had an endoscopy and a colonoscopy so far and oncology say nothing to do with the cancer.  He recently had an MRI to rule out spinal compression and a contrast ct scan.  Nothing sinister found that they didn't already know.

However, my biggest worry is that he can no longer can eat.  I have tried everything, obviously including his favourite foods.  He can manage sweet things like fruit, yoghurt and soft deserts but he just cannot mange more than a couple of mouthfuls of any savoury food and is having Energy drinks supplied by the doctor.

My questions are, do other sufferers have bad diarrhea and is total lack of appetite and inability to eat normal.  He is going downhill so fast and also getting dehydrated too. I am at my wits end trying to help him.

  • They did have rather nice legs, I have to admit!

    Whereabouts in Newcastle do you live then? 

    Gina

  • Gina

    That's what is to read my diaries  now going back to this time last year some of it really funny some of us really really really really sad.

    I don't have any Tiger stories.some of these are priceless.

    Steve (SteveCam)

  • It was in Heston but we've now got a bungalow in Burradon.  S I can walk to and from work.

    Steve (SteveCam)

  • Well my Nanna and Granda lived in Wideopen and mum went Seaton Burn school. I went to school there for six months whilst with lived with my grandparents.

    My parents sold their house in Grimsby and dad, having changed his job, was house hunting near Walthamstow whilst my pregnant mother moved us to Wideopen till he had found a house. Some other relatives lived in Ashington.

    Gina

  • Ooh Ashington, they have funny accents there.  Even funnier than mine.

    Remember Malted Milk biscuits (with the pictures of cows on).  Just had one, they still smell lovely.  Haven't had one since I was little.

    At least the weather has cooled down a little today.  Not complaining, who, Me !!!

    Steve (SteveCam)

  • Hi Steve, I have friends who live in wideopen, but they call it North Gosforth, just social climbers:)

    All the best Ulls 

  • Ulls,

    Yup, we had to move because of the constant student noise 

    Am I getting old?

    Yup

    Steve (SteveCam)

  • I remember the biscuits but not had one since I was little either. 

    When I used to tell friends my grandparents lived in Wideopen, they thought I was joking as sounds a silly name. Can understand the North Gosforth, sounds much better. Grin

    Don't blame you if the noise was constant.  I am assuming it was near a colleague then?

    Gina

  • Gina,

    Basically a hell of a lot of Heaton is taken up by H.M.O.'s (the dreaded House of Multiple Occupancy).  Just an excuse for slum landlords cramming as many students in as they can.  

    What, me, bitchy !!!  Yeah go on then.

    Back to Malted Milk biscuits, M+S done chocolate covered ones.  It was a treat to get one from my Nana.

    Steve (SteveCam)

  • No you are just a young man