The other drug Gary mentions may be Anzemet --which is even *more* expensive than Zofran, but having said that, it works for 24 hours. That is what is generally given to patients (as an IV or shot) right before chemo. Barry found that, when he had to go back to using Ethyol to have his last 3 treatments on an older machine (the tomo being down), that the Anzemet worked while the Zofran no longer seemed to (as Gary notes).

He never could get on with the Compazine and in fact, it really didn't work very well for him.

These serotonin drugs are expensive but it's a whole different ball game now regarding chemo nausea -- Barry's 7 chemo treatments were non-events, he found the Ethyol much more of an emetic; it required very careful nausea management pre-and post-injection.

Gail