Hi Nate

Alex is a world expert on cisplatin after 3 months of chemo alone and then 2 months of chemradiation. We only finished radiation at the end of August and already I cannot remember what we did with anti-nausea pills. I don't think Alex took any anti-nausea pills the night before "chemo day" during the chemo-rad phase but he definitely did for a few days after. I think he was given Zofran in pill form as soon as he arrived at the ward and then was also given some IV anti-nausea meds as well as fluids and magnesium before the cisplatin was administered. They will make you pee before they let you go, so keep drinking through the chemo process - it will speed things up for you. We used to take about 5-6 hours with chemo and then spend an hour in radiation immediately after. The actual radiation (probably 15 minutes) was very quick - it's all the set up and positioning that takes the time.

PS Alex definitely took prednisolone which has anti nausea properties the night before chemo alone, but it may have been to avoid a hypersensitivity reaction from either cisplatin or one of the other chemo drugs he had. I am sure we didn't do this during chemorad