Are your chemo IVs in a Glucose solution?
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 1:20 am
Since I am doing the Keto Diet to combat cancer I am observant to sugar intake. The FOLFIRi treatment I am doing: the pharmacy is mixing both Irentecane and Lucovoren in 5% glucose solution.
Since this throws me out of Ketosis* I asked if they can use saline instead. After checking with pharmacists the RN said they could - but don't want to.
What is your all experiences? Are they compounding your chemo in glucose, in the IV Drip bags?
PS: Either FOLFIRi is fairly easy to tolerate, or being in Ketosis is a big help in tolerating this chemo. (I am only through 2 doses, so I may be talking differently a month from now).
*According to my breath-analyzing Keto meter it took me a week to get back to Ketosis: using fat instead of glucose to feed cells.
Since this throws me out of Ketosis* I asked if they can use saline instead. After checking with pharmacists the RN said they could - but don't want to.
What is your all experiences? Are they compounding your chemo in glucose, in the IV Drip bags?
PS: Either FOLFIRi is fairly easy to tolerate, or being in Ketosis is a big help in tolerating this chemo. (I am only through 2 doses, so I may be talking differently a month from now).
*According to my breath-analyzing Keto meter it took me a week to get back to Ketosis: using fat instead of glucose to feed cells.