Surgery done 2 weeks ago back home recovering, any Nausea tips

Hi Richard glad surgery went well. Sorry to hear about the nausea I can’t help I was one of the lucky ones not even chemo made me nauseous. Hopefully someone will pop on with some tips, gradually reducing the morphine shoujd help. 
good luck with next stage and keep us all updated. 
Hazel 

Hi Hazel,

Thanks for your reply, shortly after posting my message I vomitted which of course helped with the Nausea, but has left me in unsure what to do. Normally when you are sick you avoid food for a day or so then start slowly again. Im not sure this time undergoing cancer treatment that maybe I should attempt a little something to eat. I had been expecting a call from my nurse coordinator tonight but it has not happened and now at 8pm I suspect it wont. I may try one of the on call nurses at Macmillan for advice.

Thanks again for your reply

Richard

Hi Richard I would try a fortisip tonight especially if you are taking morphine never good on empty stomach. Wouldn’t worry  too much over one night if you can’t manage to eat. Unfortunately food not tasting good is par for the course it comes ,to eat to live not live to eat for a while. But we all get there in the end. Hopefully nurse will get back to you tomorrow. Did you get any anti sickness tablets ? Metoclopramide was my anti sickness pill .

Hazel 

Hi Richard. I had a lot of nausea throughout RT and I'm sure it was the morphine but I couldn't do without it. Metoclopramide did help and there are even better antiemetics so do ask your team. I learned to just swallow the feeling down and it did become manageable.

Thanks, I did just do the Fortisip so hope I can get some sleep and speak to Nurse re Metoclopromide.

Regards

Richard

Thanks Dani, thats two replies in a row that mentioned Metoclopramide, Im sold. I will speak to my nurse tomorrow about it or something similar.

Thanks again for the reply,

Regards

No problem.  Good luck 

Hazel 

Hi Richard

I've been away for a few days so just catching up...  I am surprised at the nausea from just surgery.  I've now had 5 operations for this cancer and really not had that problem.  I recognise the pain issue though!

I very much understand the food taste issue.  I think most people associate that with the radiotherapy, but I have noticed it with surgery on the tongue.  It does get better over time.  My last surgery was just under a month ago and I still have difficulty eating, but it gets better each day.  It is mainly around swallowing and some scar tissue problems.  Fortunately I can work with that now eating solids but nothing with any crispiness in its texture; that's just too much.

I did not go onto any prescribed liquid food.  It may be that is what is making you feel nauseous??

Did you have (or are still on) antibiotics?  They can cause nausea big time. 

Good luck and persevere with getting those calories into you as they are key to healing.

Hi Peter, 

Thanks for your reply and apologies in my slow reply. My reducing  dose of morphine has also reduced the Nausea for me and so whilst the food remains with its taste rather spoilt I am experimenting and increasing intake day by day. From what I gather I need to keep this improvement going for the next couple of weeks as I will commence radiotherapy probably in about 3 weeks when I may of course get some of the side effects back.

Thanks again for your reply

Richard