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Old 08-16-2014, 10:00 AM   #7
agness
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Re: Our Experiment Fasting Around Chemo

I water-only fasted for 18 hours before round 5 of TCHP and noted the following:

Uncontrollable diarrhea in the evening, didn't make it to the toilet in time and no sign of digestive distress before it happened

Anal puritis (itching butt) for several days afterwards, probably due to the chemo-diarrhea. Cleared up after a few days though I used a topical steroid cream to help control the itching for a day or two.

Lesser side effects during the ten days after treatment

Hear started growing again - I used penguin cold caps but had lost hair on the sides above my ears. By three weeks later, after my 6th dose, it was apparent that fasting stopped the affects on my hair follicles.

I forgot to take my steroids before treatment since I wasn't eating. Someone on the breastcancer.org site said she took her pre-meds with coconut oil to maintain ketosis so that might be a work around as the steroids say to take with food.

It was really interesting to do. I hope this is helpful for someone else.
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