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| Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OP Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | Vitamin "A" is the nickname for Ativan reported on several oncology nurse blogs. (credit to "nurse pearl" ) I'm a believer since it has basically done what Zofran, Compazine did not fully handle: the "anticipatory nausea' from chemotherapy. The others kept the actual nausea/vomiting down to once a day, but then the rest of the day and night were miserable as I felt like I was just about to vomit, then would have long tearing stretches of dry retching. So there was never any relief.
I did some more research on it and it appears that since Ativan crosses the blood/brain barrier it occupies the brain receptors that trigger nausea while Zofran blocks the receptors in the stomach that send the signal for nausea to the brain receptors. So both together get the signals that the other ones miss.
Just another idea for the chemo nausea Charm 65 yr Old Frack Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+ 2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG 2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery 25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin Apaghia /G button 2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa 40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin Passed away 4-29-13
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