food and drinks

Is there any food or drink that tastes ok once you ge that metallic taste from your chemo. I have tried sweet, sour, spicy, etc and everything might taste good for 5 min and then back to the metallic taste

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  • I went off several things when I was on chemo, for the same reason. Even good red wine tasted like vinegar and single malts tasted like cough medicine mixed with iodine! Fortunately my taste buds returned to more or less to normal within a few weeks of finishing chemo.

    I'm not advocating going against medical advice, but I did find that gin and tonic tasted OK and that ginger beer seemed to help settle my stomach. I went off real ale big time, but bizarrely Stella was OK (I normally can't stand the stuff). 

    Coincidentally, I also ate and enjoyed quite a lot of fresh fish and seafood, as well as eggs and of course homemade peanut butter and banana milkshakes.   

    :-)

     

     

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