Nausea and vomiting

Hello. So sorry to hear about your mum. My late husband did vomit and that’s when he was moved to syringe driver. On March 8th this year he didn’t open his eye at all. My daughter and I still managed to give him some food like porridge, soup etc (which we shouldn’t hv) and he had them without opening his eyes. In the evening suddenly everything came out and it was like the body was rejecting everything and shutting down. Following day he was moved to hospice and he was there for 3.5 days in hospice. Even in hospice there were few times when we saw few bits coming out of his mouth, possibly whatever was left in the body. 
Take care and keep the doctors/nurses informed. 
sending you lots of hugs, love and positivity. 

Thankyou for your reply. I've spoken to the care home today and the sickness has continued. They've administered another antisickness injection and if this doesn't work they will be starting the driver today. They don't seem to know what's causing the sickness but I do feel like this is her body starting to shut down. 

Can I ask how long before the hospice your husband started with the vomitting symptoms? 

Sending love xx 

Hi. March 7th dinner was fine. He was awake and ate. 8th he wasn’t awake at all. 8th eve he had vomiting. 9th afternoon they decided to move him to hospice. He passed away on 12th. 

It's so horrible. It seems that when the decline starts it really is so rapid xx

Just a quick update. The sickness is under control mostly by anti sickness injection. A driver has been set up tonight and has medazolam in, they are administering morphine via injection and will review tomorrow to add it to the driver. It's been a horrible day. Mum was quite agigitated, followed by a long period of general restlessness, picking at her blanket and moving her legs around alot. Back to watching and waiting but I predict a rough few days ahead xx 

It’s worth looking at the brain hospicce general timeline of symptoms it lists some of these it may be helpful x 

HI ECA3

sorry to hear that things are taking a downward turn. A lot of what you describe is similar what I experienced with G in those final few days. He was Ok-ish on the Saturday but started being sick on the Sunday morning. He'd had a stroke/seizure overnight and never really regained full consciousness. He had a syringe driver put in on the Sunday and by the time he passed the following  Friday there were two in place. He was quite agitated for a couple of days but they added something (midazolam I think) to calm him down. By the end I don't know what all he was receiving but it kept him as pain free as possible and calm.

sending you love and light and hugs and strength

Wee Me xx

Thankyou for sharing wee me. It seems the vomitting isn't such a common thing, I can't find anything really outside of this group. Mums vomitting has stopped. However I'm not sure if was the anti sickness meds, or the fact it then coincided with a decrease in appetite, then an inability to swallow, followed by the driver.

She's calm and settled again today and seems to be pain free. They said we could go like this for a while now. However surely there's only so much time the body can go on like this. She's been nil by mouth since Friday and the driver has been set up since Friday too. Hard to know what to do for the best as we've been camped out for days, but there's no significant changes now since the driver went in. 

It's really hard to wrap my head around the fact she's here today but the end is nearing so this time next week she may not be. It's an odd feeling xx