Eating and Pancreatic Cancer

Can anyone tell me if there is a medication to take to enable my husband to eat.  He says he feels full and bloated all of the time and just can’t eat

He is having the Ensure drinks but that isn’t enough to stop him losing weight.

the hospital don’t seem to be able to help with this massive problem.  They just say you need to put weight on.

It is so worrying for both of us.

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  • Hi, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 20 months ago and have had two different kinds of chemo since diagnosis. 
    I lost 20kg  fire diagnosis and have found it impossible to gain it back. 
    I find eating very difficult, full all the time, and can’t taste the food that I do manage to eat. 
    I have an amazing hospital dietician who calls me regularly and who I see as an out patient as well. 
    Very little and often I suppose is the key, my dietician has me eating 6 times a day, granted very very small amounts. 
    High protein and high fat foods as well as creon to help with absorption of the fat and protein (my cholesterol is fine on the high fat foods). I feel full and bloated with the tiniest amounts but i manage to get them in and most of the time they stay there with just the odd day of vomiting and this is if I have eaten maybe a spoonful too much or connected to my chemo. 
    I hope your husband manages to find a balance of what he can and can’t manage, as it is a fine balancing act. 

  • Thank you for your response, it seems everyone is the same with this wicked cancer. I just hope he will be able to eat solids again some time. We were beginning to think it was just psychological.

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