OK. I know this stuff will save my salivary function for the rest of my life but ever since day 1 it has been making me vomit. I've had a few days here and there where some powerful combo. of anti-nausea drugs they gave me worked but even on those days, my stomach felt so CLOSE to the edge.

At first it was just a quick vomit, no dry heaves, it was over when whatever I had in my stomach came up. The wierdest thing is how any little thing would bring it on. A cough. A sneeze. Cold water. So I'd go from the medical oncologists's office where I get my shots (next to the hospital)over to radiation medicine and sometimes I'd throw up in radiation medicine, sometimes on the way there, but I'd be OK by the end of radiaiton.

But now the reaction seems to be getting even worse. Now I'm also throwing up AFTER radiation,even if I have already thrown up before and (excuse me for being so graphic), it's not just one quick heave anymore to get stuff out of there, it's long prolonged dry heaves that sometimes take several minutes to go away. And this is with sores in my mouth and throat.

By some miracle, so far I have never vomited when I'm on the rad. table pinned down by the mask, though I have done so right before and after. And yesterday and today, not only was it prolonged right before and after radiation, but when I got home the jumpy stomach lasted another two hours. I couldn't even keep water down (by PEG or mouth). It felt like I had some kind of hirroble stomach flu for half the day (around 3 pm I could keep things down again).

Anyway, I'm in my fourth week of treatment. I basically have 3 weeks to go right now (15 days of radiation), I've had 18 days. Up until today I had been telling myself I'd keep doing the Amifostine even if it made me nauseated every one of those days because it's worth it to save me from lifelong drymouth. I'm also having IMRT, though, which should save me from *some* drymouth just by itself.

But I really don't know if I can hack this increasingly bad nausea. Not to mention that I'm afraid one day it will catch me on the table while they're all in the other room and that would be truly awful.

What has anyone else's experiecne been with this? What do you think I should do?