I'm coming up on a year as a colostomate, no significant problems.
My mottos were always "I like my food hotter than the hinges of hell" and "If you aren't blowing sparks the next morning, it wasn't hot enough last night."
Chemo in '96 for lymphoma made my tongue too sensitive for Taco Bell mild sauce. You know that was torture! I eventually grew out of that and my new-found curly hair.
I had chemo for ovarian cancer and acquired curly hair, a sensitive tongue, and a stoma this time. My tongue is making a slow comeback.
As I'm able to eat hotter and hotter foods, I notice I've lost the 'revenge' component of the aftereffects. That's certainly a bonus!
Have you observed similar items?
Raphael
riffael
Mar 24, 2022 1:52 am
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Mar 24, 2022 5:01 am
Haha!! Now I say it just burns on one end...!!! That's one advantage of the Stoma!!
One strange effect for me is that I have a ravenous appetite for pickled foods sometimes. Pickled beets, the little round ones, are the best!! Little pickled sweet red and green peppers are really good. The pickled foods contain all the good bacteria that you are missing in your gut. Eat pickled foods and you won't need all that live bacteria yogurt.
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Mar 24, 2022 7:19 am
They are so good for your belly!! As I walk down the aisle, my hand washes for the pickled stuff!! All by itself almost when my body needs it. Great stuff!!
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TerryLT
Mar 24, 2022 7:50 pm
Haven't had cancer myself, but just wanted to say, I'm glad you are able to eat the hot stuff again! I am also a spicy food freak and it would bug the hell out of me if I couldn't eat half the things I love. On another note, I have a good friend who went through cancer treatment a few years ago and came out of it with curly hair!
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TerryLT
Mar 24, 2022 7:51 pm
Reply to Anonymous
Love pickled stuff. My favorites are beets and herring (not together!)! Yum, and so good for you.
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Perilune
Mar 29, 2022 2:47 am
Reply to TerryLT
At my Scrabble group yesterday, someone mentioned a friend who had chemo and all her hair fell out, and then it grew back curly. Quite a price to pay for curly hair, though.
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riffael
May 21, 2022 8:12 am
Reply to Perilune
This is the second time post-chemo that it grew back curly. It didn't take too long the first time to straighten back out though...
PurpleBushie
Sep 30, 2023 1:35 am
I heard horror stories of spicy foods causing watery output, damaging the skin barrier, & even burning skin in the event of a leakage. Lucky for me, I've experienced absolutely none of that! Sometimes it turns my output orange if it's an extremely pigmented spice like gochujang or chili powder which certainly makes things feel riskier, but no actual negative effects. Which is good, since I really love Korean and Mexican foods. Can't get a piece of candy without chili powder in Mexico (this is an exaggeration, but also I love chili sweets so I don't mind either way)