Hi Chris

My husband steve had the same treatment as you with 3 doses of cisplatin and the 3 pak of emend tablets. His nausea was ok until about 5 days after he was given the cisplatin, which of course is 2 days after the emend finished. He then took compazine until he started to feel better. His first chemo was ok but the 2nd and 3rd were very hard to take. The nausea seemed to kick in still about day 5 but took alot longer to wear off. He was given Zofran but didn't take it. From our experience he never got real bad nausea when he was taking emend. Not sure if this was because emend was good or just because (as his nurses advised) side effects don't really kick in until about day 5.

By his last cisplatin we found the trip to and from his treatment would really make the nausea worse. With Steve though the nausea definitely got worse the further into treatment he got. He was also subscribed Ativan but never took that. He has never taken any kind of meds before this so just getting emend and compazine into him were more than enough for him to cope with (after many attempts of trying to give him these, with no success I gave up). One tip we did find though which may help. Steve's nausea seemed to improve the more hydrated he was. So make sure you keep the fluids up as much as you can. Take care Chris and keep us posted.