Sickness

Hi Hannah Eliza

I was diagnosed T4 N2 M1 back in November. It had spread to my lungs but nowhere else. I had 4 cycles of Cisplatin and Capecitabine and a CT scan halfway through cycle 3 showed the tumour had drastically shrunk and the lung nodes had totally vanished.

Can't help you with the nausea as I did not have it, just fatigue so they stopped after cycle 4 as such good progress.

Just wanted to encourage you that it does work. I think they gave me an extra anti-nausea infusion before cycle 3.

Do you know what your anti-nausea infusion was called? 

Sorry no, I have just looked on my treatment record and it doesn't state it. I never complained about nausea so maybe it is just something they do. Chemo nurse told me they were adding it.

Hi

Sorry I am a bit late in seeing this post, 

Dal believes he has ondansetron via infusion and has been given both domperidon & ondansetron tablets for anti sickness which seem to have worked well for him. 

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Hi

My husband is given anti-nausea meds before treatment and they continue over the first three days: Ondansetron (2 doses day 1); dexamethasone (one dose for three days ); Metachlorpramide (3 doses over three days and as needed from then on); and loperamide to control diarrhea. He had awful diarrhea caused by the cancer before treatment and it flushed the potassium out of his system resulting in 7 nights in hospital to stabilise him, so don't forget to up the fluids when on chemo and titrate the loperamide up if there's any risk of diarrhea. Hope this helps.