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daisyduck

daisyduck

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Location
Great Yarmouth
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Hi peeps. I've been busy with my chemotherapy and radiotherapy so haven't been here for a while. I've finished week 2 of six and a half weeks and apart from some nasty side effects am feeling positive.
I'm losing weight without trying.. that will be the diarrhea due to the radiotherapy.
It's been impossible to stick to very low carb but I seem to be doing OK BG wise on moderate carbs.
The steroids they give me with the chemo on Mondays send BG really high ! I'd never seen a 14 before !! but that drops during the week again.
A BRAT diet is recommended on this treatment.. Bananas. Rice, Apples and Toast .. I haven't gone that far yet but time will tell.
The consultant did say to me at the start of treatment.. now is not the time to be worrying about diabetes !
Hope you're all doing well. I'll have a nosy through all the posts now I'm here xx
 
Good luck with it all. Your consultant is right, diabetes is the least of your worries at the moment. The treatment will all be over before you know it, then time for recovery from any lingering side effects, and only then start worrying about diabetes.

Thanks for giving us an update. :)
 
2 of 6 - a third of the way there, @daisyduck - keep going! Chemo and Radio together is the Devil's treatment, but it'll blast the **** out of your tumours. Suck down those anti-emetics get some super-warm, giant, fluffy socks (something every friend of mine who has gone through any kind of cancer protocol has enjoyed, though I still have no idea why) and, yes, I think you can give yourself a pass on the LCHF for now; it'll be waiting for you when you're well again.

Hang in there - you're doing great!

Sock x
 
Good luck!!! You do sound quite positive. Or as positive as you can be

Just a thought if your nauseous. Ginger tea or chews can really help quelch that.
 
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Keep up the fight Daisy, I had 37days of radio therapy fourteen years ago but no chemo other than an hormone blocker. These teams that set up treatment plans are brilliant and with your positive outlook one looks forward to a good outcome. God bless you. Derek
 
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Hi @daisyduck
I want to send you my best wishes for a successful treatment. I'm sure you have to eat for that now and hopefully afterwards can concentrate on your diabetes. Take care.
 
daisyduck said:
Hi peeps. I've been busy with my chemotherapy and radiotherapy so haven't been here for a while. I've finished week 2 of six and a half weeks and apart from some nasty side effects am feeling positive.
I'm losing weight without trying.. that will be the diarrhea due to the radiotherapy.
It's been impossible to stick to very low carb but I seem to be doing OK BG wise on moderate carbs.
The steroids they give me with the chemo on Mondays send BG really high ! I'd never seen a 14 before !! but that drops during the week again.
A BRAT diet is recommended on this treatment.. Bananas. Rice, Apples and Toast .. I haven't gone that far yet but time will tell.
The consultant did say to me at the start of treatment.. now is not the time to be worrying about diabetes !
Hope you're all doing well. I'll have a nosy through all the posts now I'm here xx
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Hugs & best wishes for a speedy recovery.....
Flor Essence might help your body detox. Also claims of shrinking tumours. It worked with benign/precancerous ones for one if our dogs and a chat I used to work with swears his mum wouldn't have got through her cancer treatment without it.....
 
My red blood count was low after 2 weeks radiation so I had to have 2 bags of blood in a transfusion today.. takes forever ! Four and a half hours ! I wonder if that will affect readings ?
 
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My red blood count was low after 2 weeks radiation so I had to have 2 bags of blood in a transfusion today.. takes forever ! Four and a half hours ! I wonder if that will affect readings ?
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LOL it certainly should make a difference - you have 2 bags of red blood cells in your body with less glucose sticking to them!! (assuming the donated blood had very little, of course!)
 
@daisyduck. Thinking of you and wishing you well in your journey through this harrowing treatment.

I was fortunate to attend a brilliant talk by a top, top oncologist Professor Robert Thomas and his book and website cancernet.org has some brilliant information and for me the most information I have had from anybody during my treatment.

I too have had a lot of low levels of everything basically in my bloods but I didnt have chemo but cancer drug. I havent needed transfusions but 18 months on I am in a better place thanks to eating and drinking specific foods that have agreed with my body.

If you have a cancer therapy unit nearby, they are fantastic. The surgeons etc deal with all the splucing, dicing, freezing and frying but the tgerapy units help far beyond that treatment... there are excellent Maggie centres and Robert Horrell Macmillan Centre. Superb places to help beyond the immediate care we need.

Chemo does knock a lot out of bloods and they will be up and down for a while but you will be well monitored and helped throughout.

So thinking of youxx
 
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