Good news/bad news

stickywicket

Good news - The battle for my oeophagus seems to be dying down a little, drowned as it is in gaviscon advance. So I decided to risk all with a lovely big mug of tea at lunchtime.

Bad news - I didn't much like it. This is TEA we're talking about. The cup that cheers. The comfort drink. My staple diet. I drink it by the lovely gallon in normal times. Today it just tasted like a poor alternative to the hot water I've been substituting it with for weeks.

I fear a personality change coming on. If I go off wine I'm totally scuppered.

dreamdaisy

:shock: Ye gods, who are you and what have you done with sticky?

Oh dear, I guess a few days on hot unflavoured water could change one's taste-buds. I have a poster that says 'Where's there tea there's hope.' Crikey, sticky. You will be a new woman, out and about with the Sally Army selling The War Cry - I bet you'll look good in the uniform.

I had a wine disaster last night: one new, chilled, fresh, glistening bottle of utter loveliness removed from fridge and promptly dropped on the floor. :roll: I'm playing safe as a friend is coming round this evening: two bottles chilling, jar gripper thing on the side. DD

Mat48

Hey welcome to the hot water brigade Sticky! Only prob with being caffeine, sugar, dairy and gluten free as I am now is that I've taken to whisky with a vengeance. Well a girl's got to have a sin and anyway whisky is semi medicinal I reckon, just as cajun frieds/ chips are gluten and dairy free. If I do get put on Methotrexate I'll be scunnered though!?

traluvie

Sticky Glad to hear the stomach is settling..

Gone off tea though, not good... I am sure it is just a case of taste buds coming back..
I have every faith that by the time you can handle a glass of wine your dear taste buds would have returned and the wine will go down a treat..xx

barbara12

Hi SW
Im so glad your stomach is settling down...hopefully the tea will taste better in a couple of days...please god.....now has far has the wine goes...well if one doesn't suit there are plenty more... now you take care of yourself

suzygirl

Sticky glad to hear the oesphagus is finally settling. Shame about the tea, it must be a blow. Will you be doing the wine test tonight, just to be sure???

tonesp

Have you tried Camomile or Mint tea My wife seems to prefer it to ordinary tea Me I'm still a Ceylon/Assam man

CJHunter

Glad Osoph is easing, dont know how I'd live without tea, your buds will come back.

You cant start on that camomile hippy stuff, who calls that tea anyhow

As for you DD get your friend to retrieve wine from fridge, what a disaster :oops:

Have a lovely evening all.

stickywicket

Thanks for the comisserations everyone. My consolation is that I managed a small glass of wine every night throughout and felt no worse than I would have otherwise. It was always tea that scuppered me.

Herbals? I tried them at first and they just left me longing for the real thing. Water was so different it didn't.

Whisky? Ah, Mats, now you're talking my language. Alas, it is a rare treat now with the meth.

DD, I drop many things but never a bottle of wine. Good idea to put 2 in the fridge just in case but lightening rarely strikes twice so you'll almost certainly have the second bottle there ready chilled for tomorrow evening. Won't you???

ironic

Hi Sticky,
I can sympathise with the tea tasting awful, I get this for a couple of days after taking meth with the added bonus of metallic after taste. I love my tea and don’t have sugar in it so there is no disguising or pretending that it drinkable. :sad:
I have in desperation gone on to drinking chocolate but not really the same is it.
Good that the oesophagus problem has settled a bit, I hope the taste buds return for you soon.

I x

tjt6768

Oh Sticky, I can truly understand.. I lurvs mi tetleys tea but in recent months it seems to really upset the stomach
I cannot do the whole hippy camomile/lapdog shoeshine business

valval

went a whole year with out tea now only drink it black the milk turns my stomache these days ??? hope things get back to normal soon val

julie47

Hi sticky glad the osophagus has started to behave, I feel quite happy now, was getting a little worried for you.

Well, well well you have gone of the old tetley/yorkshire tea :shock:
I bet you couldnn't belieeeeeeeeeve it.
glad you can still enjoy an odd tipple of wine though.

Take care
Love juliepf x

Mat48

Try adding a large slice of lemon to the hot water - a tip I got from the RA site re alkalising or acidising the body or something? Anyway it makes it taste a tad more ...well lemony... and is therefore a little more interesting?! I hate herbal teas but have grown quite addicted to my hot water with lemon now. It also cleanses the pallet before meals I find so things taste better?

My gallstones used to have episodic field days on me and couldn't eat for days without terrible pain but have had no jip at all since my food eliminating malarky started. Maybe they've just grown too big now and their travelling days are over now? Here's hoping.. only thing that's ever been more painful than this arther is a gallstone episode!

frogmorton

Gosh Sticky :shock:

l am pretty well horrified :shock:

but sure that if you like it now.....l mean really (honestly), like it.... :???: It's probably better for you

Love

Toni xx

stickywicket

Thanks again everyone. I'm afraid I'm my own worst enemy. Yesterday my sister came over so I made an apple tart (Bought the flan case - my pastry making days are long gone) using our Bramleys, cloves, cinnamon & raisins. Yup, you're all there ahead of me. Stupid woman!

Ironic - if you hate 'metallic' then never have chemo. I spent 6-8 weeks sucking boiled sweets in a vain effort to get rid of the taste.

Tony - I'm really sorry to be the bearer of bad news but tea, whether Tetleys or any other variety, seems to be a complete no-no for bad stomachs.

valval - I don't think milk's a problem for me, though I'm only having it on cereals. I've never much liked my tea black.

Julie - Ah, yes, the wine. Still only the one, small glass though.

Mat - I like lemon, but not right now. If tomatoes are out due to their acidity, I think lemon probably is too.

Frogmorton - I really, honestly like it. I'm horrified too.

dreamdaisy

Oh dear. :sad: I am so sorry, it was a lovely gesture to make it but hindsight is always a wonderful, wonderful thing. I hope things ease soon and if the hot water is helping then so be it. Once your 'balance' is restored then I am sure that gradually the wondrous things of life can be gradually re-introduced. DD