nausea

lynrose

 Hi everyone , I am now one week done in rads.......I am just wondering if anyone has experienced nausea during their treatment.   I am type A personality, and I keep very busy, I make myself push through the tiredness and than I get nausea.........could this be why I am getting this so frequent,  ( the nausea) gee , this is just the beginning of this and I got it from day one.   I do have adivan and a anti nausea pill that dana farber hospital gave me.....but I am so afraid of getting addicted to them , that I just used them once.....I was so wiped out on them, but they did work.................I am on a pill call Femura.  Could that be causing the nausea?   I have been on Femura for 6 weeks now.    It is day 5 of rads and I still have this horrible nausea, which makes me soooooooooooooooooo grumpy..........thanks all , I am sure you all have some problems worse than this, but I have asked the rad. dr,, and nurses there and they seem to just poo poo me away with no advice just to drink ginger all..........any advice you could give me I would so appreciate.........Thank you

linn56

I have a history of nausea...I get it very badly from migraines. Ginger ale, though great in theory, is not nearly strong enough for serious nausea. I suggest  either ginger capsules (available at the health food store), or what I think works better, crystallized ginger. I nibble on a piece very slowly, with small sips of water in between. I take like 15 minutes to eat one slice. If it is fresh and soft it seems to work better than if it is old and dry. It takes maybe 1-3 slices (they are about  the size of a quarter, and twice as thick) to work. I find that Trader Joes' has very good crystallized ginger.   If you don't like the taste then go for the capsules. I have mixed those in with jello (just open and stir in to the liquid jello) for my daughter, who is also plagued by frequent nausea, and who does not like the crystallized ginger.

You can also cook with ginger, but when I'm sick, cooking is the last think I want to do!

My son once helped a boat full of high school students with their seasickness by passing around the bag of ginger I had sent with him (English Channel crossing).

There are also wrist bands that use acupressure points to control nausea. I have not used them myself. I think you can get them at travel stores.