Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,844 | Hey T!
Sorry you and your husband are having such a hard time, that's aweful! I'm glad that you are going to see a swallow specialist.
So if I'm understanding right, as it's early for me and I've had no caffeine yet, is that it's the gag reflex causing the vomiting? So he tries to eat, it gets hung up or triggers the gag reflex and he throws up? Or he throws up with solid foods as they make him nauseous?
My thoughts are cause basically because if your husband is still on an opiate pain medication, they will cause nausea. They are also funny in the fact that it's a side effect that can come and go with them depending on varying factors (amount of pain meds in the system, empty stomach when taking them etc).
The nausea happened to me frequently due to my relationship with pain meds, I battled it with a mix of mj and compazine as neither alone would do the trick and I was deathly thin and in need of nutrition.
Hang in there, keep searching for answers!
Eric
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