Hello to you all,
I have just completed my first week of radiotherapy and for the last couple of days of it I must admit to feeling a little sickly, nauseous.
I was told to try things such as sparking water, lemonade, ginger ale or even eat a ginger biscuit though I have yet to try the ginger ale none of the others really worked.
I also now believe that the sickness feeling comes around more when I eat something because yesterday was the worst day of the week and I have eaten normally all week and really only Thursday / Friday did I get this slow build up of feeling sick.
I have not had breakfast as yet today Saturday but again I was told to maybe, eat little and often but the sickness feeling today though I feel it hovering it as not bothered me as much.
Assuming this is normal can I ask how anyone else has coped with it?
Thank you all in advance.
Tony
Interesting comments the acid reflux ?
That’s so common it should be in the side effects on our consent form.
In recovery it persists because the natural balance between saliva and stomach acid is lost. I’m on Lansoprazole now and then over two years later
Another thing. If you are bothered by reflux try to avoid too much mint which opens up your sphincter at the bottom of your oesophagus.
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
I had nausea practically the whole way through and no chemo either. The morphine made it worse. I had metoclopramide which helped a little but in the end I just learned to swallow it down.
When you get onto morphine make sure they give you laxido or movicol because opiates slow your gut motility and constipation makes the nausea worse
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
It’s good to keep a list of worries and questions. You don’t really need to wait for reviews remember. Your RT team are the first port of call on a daily basis
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
