What to drink to quench thirst?
I am two days past chemo #4, parched but everything I drink tastes like crap, including water. Any suggestions about what will quench my thirst, but not repulse me? I would even go for a malted milk if I thought it would help? Thanks.
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Lemonade, pink lemonade, strawberry lemonade etc really helped me when I had the awful taste in my mouth. Helped with dry mouth too. It was one of the few drinks that I could actually taste what it was suppose to taste like. I rememeber water even tasting horrible. Good luck!
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Thank you Mom of 2. I might even have some in the house!
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I second the lemonade suggestion.. any form of it tasted great as long as it was really cold.
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I tried just the different single serve flavors you add to bottled waters and found some of them were tolerable if they had a really strong flavor. I couldn't stand my usual favorite drink (diet coke). And couldn't even think about coffee.
About to start the fun again Monday for second round of A/C so I need to stock up on some things this weekend!
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Kitb04 - Diet Coke is repulsive now to me too. But I continue to drink coffee because if I don't, as I've said here many times before, by the end of the week I start to go through coffee withdrawal on top of chemo!
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I drank a lot of coconut water and chocolate milk. I could drink Pellegrino water at my parents, but tap water was horrible. Lemonade and orange juice were okay sometimes but when the Taxol affected my taste buds a few weeks here and there, they were bitter.
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Aqua Delight is supposed to help with that metallic taste. I drink their water and like it but I didn't find the company until after I was done with the chemo that causes that type of taste change.
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I just drank plain water when I was doing carbo. Yes, it tastes icky but it's important to drink a lot of water. A bit of lemon can help.
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I found water to taste yukky too, but drank it to stay hydrated and to flush the chemo and toxins out of my system. But i found ice pops tasted really good to me and helped with my mouth sores too.
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I kept a bunch of single-serve beverages around, that way I kept one or two in the fridge and not clog it up with a bunch of big bottles. I really developed a taste for V8 Fusion, which is a mix of vegetable and fruit juices. Others I kept on hand were pineapple juice, prune juice, orange juice, vanilla soy milk and chocolate milk.
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Celestial seasonings Bengal Spice tea hot cold, anything with ginger in it, carbonated water with lemon
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I also found that water tasted progressively worse with each treatment. I just made myself drink it and lemon helped a little. Apple juice and mango smoothies (I bought those Jamba Juice packets in the freezer aisle) were tolerable. This last go-round I drank a lot of ginger ale as kind of a treat because it was the end of my chemo and tasted better than just about anything else. Another treat for me were those Breyer Coconut popsicles - yum!
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Last round of treatment, all I could stand to drink was bottled water with lots of ice and a slice of lemon. And even that wasn't great. My P.A. suggested I try Sobe flavored water so I have some in the fridge, waiting.
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1 can ginger ale
1 cup ice cubes
Put in blender and blend into slushie
Sweet, tangy, refreshing, and settles the tummy...
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Sweet tea. Still is the only thing that I like. Pop is too sweet, lemonade would hurt my mouth. Best wishes to you.
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I found grape juice tasted good - not like it tastes normally, but still good.
Leah
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Joan, I got a bunch of herbal teas with different flavors and that got me through. The Yogi brand is really good and makes very tasty teas.
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Thank you for all the suggestions! Two more chemos to go and I will be trying them!
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Popsicles or frozen juice bars and watermelon did it for me. I also drank a lot of the V8 Fusion (the low sugar stuff). Carbonated beverages were eventually off-limits, including the Diet Coke that I loved.
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During my treatment I drank: zero vitamin water lemonade, diet orange crush, diet ginger ale.......I normally don't drink these flavors, since the end of my treatment I no longer like the taste of any of these..........
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I should have added: I had chemo dd AC and dd Taxol and radiation...............
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I drank iced green tea a lot. BUT now I don't like it at all.
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I used those Propel packets that you mix with water. No metallic taste, like the water. A lot of people have mentioned lemonade...the Propel lemonade was the one I drank most.
Like KSteve said, however, I now can no longer drink them. Too associated with chemo.
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I love water. During chemo and for several weeks after I couldn't stand water. I ended up drinking lemonade and sprite to quench my thirst.
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Hi - just curious - did you notice that filtered water tasted any better than straight tap water?
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Hmmmm.... guess I'd better stock up on lemons, sounds like.
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I drank alot of unsweetened ice tea and added some mango or other syrup if I needed some flavors
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Be careful of too much lemon or lemonade - I drank a lot on tx#1 and ended with a mouthful of sores. I did not drink lemon/lemonade subsequently and had no more sores. I found Gatorade mixed with water good - particularly the blue one, don't know the exact flavor name. Also Welch's Essentials White Grape/Mango/Peach juice mixed with sparkling water.
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JoanQuilts, Sorry that you're going through this. I just went through it a few weeks ago. I remember telling my husband that even bottled water tasted like motor oil. I echo what Special K said and had to be careful of anything acidic, due to indigestion and sore mouth. I finally settled on apple juice, plain or diluted with a little water to reduce the sugar. Good luck -- It does get better, this week, water is tolerable -- not delicious, but OK.
Jenifer
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Thank you ladies for your suggestions. I'm having a hard time drinking anything at all. Everything tastes vile, but I know I have to drink so I keep trying. I can't face anything sweet and was going to try the lemonade route again until I discovered some of you got sores from it. I can't drink anything with bubbles either, as I get gassy. I think I'll try diluted juice again.
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