hi gals, needing help with increasing nausea. today was day 10 for abdominal rads and nausea is getting worse each day. zofran is barely touching it anymore. peppermint gum helps for a short time. what can i do? i'll talk to them tomorrow but boy could i do without it. making me miserable.

I don't know if this will help, its an old wives tale. Coke syrup. They sell it in drug stores. You take one tsp, straight, and see if it will work. I use to give it to the kids when they would get those round the clock stomach things. They would be throwing up all night, it would work for them.

Then there is crystallized ginger. Works wonders for the stomach to settle it down.
Ginger is also a natural heartburn healer. I hope you feel better soon.

They don't date these research projects but they are doing one on ginger and nausea:

http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/news/ginger05.shtml

Maria

The only thing that helped Cam with the nausea was a compound that the pharmacy makes...It's called ABH... Zophan did not do Cam any good when she was going thru the worst of the nausea..throwing up all the time. She could not even walk from bed to couch without her "bucket" and many trips to ER for dehydration. The Doctors ordered ABH. It is a compound of Ativan-Benadryl-Haldol.
They make it in suppository or in a gel to rub on skin. It works...It was ordered by the Dr's here at MD Anderson, but is given by many cancer centers. Ask about it, it also helps calm the nerves.

Any pharmacy that does compounding can make it.

My sweet friend,
I used to suck on Lemon Drops, the candy.
I had ginger teas, too.

Instant mashed potatoes unless my mom was around who would make me fresh mashed potatoes and cool slices of cantelope.