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Nausea and eating

Getting fluids in when even water is unappealing

Started 3 January 2026 · 16 replies · 111 hearts · read 1.6k times

Bell ANorwich, UK · 3 January 2026
7 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: Getting fluids in when even water is unappealing Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Squeamish subject, so I am going to be plain about it and get it over with.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#1

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#2

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#3

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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IlseMaastricht, NL
#4

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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RenataKraków, PL
#5

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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VivLuton, UK
#6

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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MossHebden Bridge, UK
#7

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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RayBarnsley, UK
#8

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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CasperOdense, DK
#9

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#10

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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TemSouthend, UK
#11

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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DaraAthlone, IE
#12

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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GwynethAberdare, UK
#13

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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BramleyBath, UK
#14

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#15

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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MimiHong Kong
#16

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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