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Help! I am confused with this sugar thing. Why can't we eat things with sugar? I have been craving candy! I put a tea spoon of sugar in my coffee every day! I ate a whole angle food cake by myself! I have never eating this much sugar before I was sick! I think it is because they took all my female organs and now I am an "it". When they say eat carbs they turn to sugar too! I am confused! Can someone explane please....
Thank you,
Stacy
Exercise Cancer Surgery Decadron Diabetes Breast cancer Ovarian cancer Chemotherapy Memory Metformin Stress
Sorry for the misspelled words I just reread my posting! I cant seem to pck the correct spelling for the word I want!
dear gun I worked in an office of 55 people as a Senior Office Admin.. I was the one everyone came to for spelling now I can't spell spit when I have a mouthful. I've begun to wonder if this is part of chemo brain .See if this makes sense to you .I reach for a word that I used to know and can't find it, can't seem to keep the there's straight ,accept &except . I think maybe that things in our language center are kinda scrambled and when we go to spell something it just comes out a bit scrambled.So we come up with short cuts .Also just getting the info from my brain to my fingers is absolutely maddening .I was a far keyboarder before at 35-40 now I'm about 15. Think this would be a great test to show what chemo does have people take typing test before surgery after then during and after chemo. Just spent 5 minutes trying to fix this.
I really have no idea about the sugar thing .
Stacy,
I say, eat sugar!!! LOL, but then again I'm a big girl! Anyway, I had such a hard time trying to find something that I COULD eat that didn't taste terrible. I had a terrible terrible time with the metallic taste in my mouth. So, I ate really spicy food and sweet stuff cut that nasty taste.
One of the other things is that chemo makes your blood sugar GO CRAZY. I ended up having to do diabetic diet. I was admitted in to the hospital after one treatment and my sugar was 398..WOAH. The doctor said I should have been in a coma.
God Bless chemo brain! I think I still have it!! Since chemo, I have trouble with speaking the word I'm thinking. I haven't talked to anyone about it, maybe I should.
Blessing for a great weekend!
Nikki
Stacy....don't know exactly, but I do know that a PET is effective in showing the cancer because the cancer "eats" the radioactive sugar that is injected into us as part of the PET. So I think the assumption is that sugar feeds the tumors. I have heard this many times, but don't know if that is a scientific thing or not.
Gpawelski usually is able to answer these tech questions in very easy to understand terms, so maybe he will post an answer.
Jeanie
Gunpowder, I've done extensive research on nutrition and I am sorry to say but SUGAR is one of the WORST things we can eat w/OC. I am 38 remission free after 6 std rounds of chemo and what we put in our mouth might be the difference between recurrence or not. Trust me, I know, I am also a medical rep for 9 years. Sugar basically feeds the tumor! You can do the research and it is all there. I know if you're in the middle of chemo, its so hard to even eat so we have to eat what we can and tastes good. I know, we've been there. Also, dairy-milk, coffee even very sugary fruits is a no-no. I've switched to green tea instead, soy milk, the very greenest of green vegies - kale, bok choy; chick peas, fiber, little meats, lotsa fish! Also vitamin D has been proven to keep cancer at bay, calcium, vitamin E, I take all these supps! I have stage IIIC and I want to stay recurrence free forever! Trying to get into a vaccine trial as we speak because recurrence is greater than 50%! I don't listen to stats but it IS reality. I know its so hard to give up what we love to eat but try to also incorporate the good stuff everyday. Take good care, Veronica
I hate to admit that I am a sugar freak. My habits havent changed, but I will tell you that I went into a 6 year remission and still being a sugar freak. I wish I didnt like sweets so much, but it seems like nothing is good for you anymore. Therese
You may be right-during my chemo I all of a sudden found myself eating a WHOLE Entenmanns french butter coffee cake not once but 2 times a day! This went on for about 3 months. I was literally cleaning the stores out! Finally when I ate one that was slightly well done I no longer had the desire for them. I too have also heard that sugar feeds a tumor. But I was also told that we need balance with our nutrution and moderation makes a difference.
Thank you Girls for the information!
Veronica1125, I am so very interested in the food and how to keep my body going. I use to drink soy and eat so much better then what I am doing now. That is one of the weird things I was the one in the family that watched everything that I made and ate. So then when hit with this I just did not get it. Anyway Now I do. But I would love more information if you have it. My direct email is stacy55105@yahoo.com thank you so much for your time on this.
Stacy
If you are getting Decadron with your chemo which is a steroid, it increases appetite. I was very hungry when on regular steroids and even some increase from the IV Decadron at each chemo. When I was on chemo I mispelled words and left out words terribly because of the effects on my brain from the chemo. I used to be an English guru and won spelling bees in school. Even after chemo my memory and mental acuity is not near what it once was but I am alive and I must be thankful for the most important thing of all...my life. Losing one's health is a humbling experience and makes one realize that we are human beings and we can not rely on ourselves alone but a divine source.
I have never craved so much sugar in my life! I cannot seem to get it under control. I know that cancer loves sugar so I try not buy it, I developed chemo induced diabeties as well and had to get insulin shots before receiving chemo twice. I recently went to my gp who wants me to come in again to retest my sugar cause it was high. I thought it would disapear after chemo but maybe not. Well wishers are always bringing baked goods over to be nice and kinda get insulted if I say anything, I know they are only trying to make me happy.....maybe I should send out an email explaining the whole sugar cancer thing. (Gpawelski please post) I mean this is my life here. I am trying to control the refined sugar with fruits but I guess that is not the solution. I also stay away from soy products because this cancer is estogen receptive, but again everything in moderation is the best advice. As far as the spelling/word thing you describe me exactly, I cannot spell nor find the word. I've been attributing it to chemo brain. I also think that abnormally craving sugar could be a sympton. Geezzz what ambiguous symptons we have.........
Sugar creates an environment that cancer loves.
All the info I've read about sugar and cancer, including my medical nutritionist's view 7 years ago, shows that sugar feeds cancer.
Costco and other bookstores have a book titled Anti Cancer: A New way of life by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD, and 2-time survivor of cancer. It sums up quite a bit about what we're facing and why. I've read about half the book and although I'm the one everyone comes to for nutrition advice, still learned quite a bit.
Hope this helps. After having survived breast cancer 17 years ago, and switching my diet, I'm convinced I wouldn't be here if I hadn't. I've kept myself healthy just to fight the cancer cells.
Hope this helps someone out there!
I'm not that big on sugar, but I've never been. I've always snacked on fruits and veggies and still do.
I do eat sugar and candy when I want it. I figure we're all going to die one day, may as well do it by doing/eating what we like.
Take care & God Bless
I would like to see medical reports that state that sugar is not good for us. (not just one doctor who has written a book) Have any of your doctors told it was not? Mine have not. I am going for my first four month checkup next week (for two years it was every three months). I will ask my doctor what she knows about it. If this sugar thing is true, all doctors who treat cancer patients would tell us not to have sugar.
Zircons, I have to say I come from a diametrically opposed perspective. I am always looking for the wisdom beyond Western medicine's approved dogma. There is so much available to us that does not produce profits for the medical industry and for that reason will never be advocated by medical doctors who are under the influence of pharmaceutical advertising and funding. There may never be a medical consensus on the things that we can do to help ourselves. I could get even more cynical here but I don't think it would be helpful.
May God bless us all in our search for wellness.
Martha McQ
I agree with Zircons, if there was something "set in stone" about sugar we as cancer patients would know it; ie. if you are a diabetic you are put on a special diet.
I for one shall eat what I want and I shall have my glass of wine every day although ALLwill be in moderation. I have been "blessed" with stage IV Ovarian Cancer and I will not change my diet during the time I have left here on earth. I shall eat, drink, laugh, dance and be merry while I am here and remember this, you only get one shot at this life God has given you so you might as well make it a good life. I have a 90-95% chance of recurrance and I have been in remission since May 15, 2006. EAT UP!
Pinky
Hi, gg1.
Do you mind telling me which chemo drug induced diabetes? Thanks.
Dot
I am ashamed to say, if there was a sugars anonymous, I would be a charter member. And at the end of every meeting I'd be asking if there was anybody that wanted to go with me to have a piece of cake. I have a sweet tooth that just won't quit. When I go to the store, I buy all the nutritious stuff, and cookies, and the cookies are gone in no time and the salad fixings get thrown away because they go bad.
I have one thing to offer on the horrible taste of everything when you are having chemo treatments. My husband used to make pancakes for me, and that is about all that I lived on for those days immediately after a treatment. They are bland enough but filling enough and easy to get down. If you put some vanilla in the batter, better yet.
As for the chemo brain - yikes. I had read at one point that it takes ten years to get your cognitive thinking abilities back to normal after chemotherapy. After a five year remission, I was congradulating myself (or is it congratulating myself) on being half way there. Then recurrence, more chemo., deeper into chemo brain.
I prepare court transcripts for appellate purposes as a living so I type all day long. And there are times that I really struggle with something that I know I know, but I just can't reach it. All of you have described it perfectly. It's like you need to grab something that is 15 inches away, but your arm length is only 13 inches.
I used to spend so much time looking through a dictionary to find words. Now I just go to the internet and do a google search. And if the word is misspelled, Google will replay with something like - no match found for "whatver" Did you mean to say "whatever." And there is your correct spelling. Thank God for Google. Blessings and grace to all.
Hi to all of you, I've been reading your postings with much interest because I'm trying to do what's best for myself, too. In another posting on this site (Journal entry Doctors vs. Nature) there was a reply with this link: http: //www.caring4cancer.com/go/cancer/nutrition/questions/sugar-and-cancer -is-there-a-connection.htm
It's an interesting article about sugar and cancer. Obviously more research needs to be done; until there are some definite answers, I'm going to eat as healthy as I can, and still have fun!
Emily
Thank you!!!!! all of ya for the wonderful information. It has helped so very much. You are wonderful women!!!
Hugs to you all
Stacy
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