Hello Everyone on this great site!! I just want to say thanks to everyone who posts - I just found this site and have had ulcerative colitis and a J- pouch resection for 30 years before I had an ileostomy placed in 2013 because of fistulas. Whatever - I should have had it done 10 years before that!! I do triathlons, coach basketball and track, work in insurance, and raised 3 kids through it all. But NOW, I just got diagnosed with breast cancer (after surviving surgery for a blockage 🙄), and the chemo is killing me, because of dehydration!!! Any suggestions???Â
Swiss miss
Mar 14, 2018 12:54 pm
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Mar 14, 2018 11:05 pm
Hi from jerz in Baltimore.greeen bannas coconut juice greener the banna the better.eat banna before it gets sweet is the kee to naturalize side effect of kemo.nuroputhy pain can be nutulized with very hot showers.showers helps rehydration  without drinking water.water turns over stomach.when I drank water.the idea is not to vomit out the little you can hold down.itook 2rounds kemo bythen hands feet sheed skin.you can live.hope you do well swiss miss jerz
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Jun 20, 2018 10:43 am
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