[rabbitParticipant]

Hi all,

There are an awful lot of quacks and questionable material online about healthy eating for cancer patients. Obscure types of mushrooms, weird and expensive supplements, you name it.

I have slogged my way through peer reviewed research and reputable sources to try to find anything that would be of value to mywloma patients.

I have myeloma myself, and have no financial interest in any of this.

I am thinking of posting what I have found on this forum in instalments. Please let me know if that would be of interest.

The first instalment is high level.

https://healthtree.org/myeloma/community/articles/what-to-eat-if-you-have-multiple-myeloma

Regards
Rabbit

[morwennaParticipant]

Thank you Rabbit, that was very helpful. Please continue posting

[rabbitParticipant]

Morwenna, thanks for the feedback.

Regards
Rabbit

[labladyParticipant]

I only wish I could get my DH to eat healthy, living on fish fingers, chicken soup, toast, steak and pasta, chocolate mousse and ice cream at moment. Anything healthy suggested gets a look like I’m trying to poison him lol 😆 I wouldn’t care but before myeloma we ate a very healthy varied diet but he just can’t tolerate so many foods especially veg of any description, tomatoes are a huge no no, any meat other than steak or chicken are just a few examples. He’s never been a fussy eater in his life oh and he’s gone off coffee and is drinking tea which he’s hated all his life, really strange. These chemo drugs are sure playing havoc with his appetite and digestion.

[rabbitParticipant]

Hi Lablady,

I have been there. For a few months – I think it was around the time I was in consolidation – I wanted mostly rice pudding, yoghurt and ice cream. The ironic thing is that I had never liked ice cream until then.

Taste buds, appetite and nausea can really affect what someone with MM wants and can eat. Based on my own experience (although of course everyone is different), it should ease off over time.

Nowadays, my only food related issue can be keeping up with my appetite! Somehow maintenance chemo has increased my hunger, so I eat a huge amount (two lunches a day is routine) but my weight is stable.

Regards
Rabbit

[blobgobParticipant]

Hi Rabbit,

I’ll be reading, so please post your output on Healthy eating!

Regards,
Derek

[blobgobParticipant]

@lablady

I went off coffee for 9 months during my initial treatment and then Stem Cell Transplant. Both coffee and beer were just not of interest to me! And I was a regular coffee drinker before that.

But gradually the coffee taste came back to me and I now drink it regularly, with the occasional tea!

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