 Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 54 | Michael and Gail,
John actually got Emend for 3 days which is the serotonin uptake nausea drug I think you are referring to (also in the same class as another antinausea drug called Kytril). He still felt queasy and nauseaus for several days but never vomited with the first dose of cisplatin. Emend costs about $100 per pill! We start another round of Emend for 3 days and Decadron for 5 days tomorrow with our next adventure with chemo and will use ativan and compazine as backups. Hope soon we will be talking of pleasanter things than N&V (we'll probably move on to constipation)!
Janet
Caregiver, Husband diagnosed 7/6/05 SCC left tonsil, T2N2bM0, Concurrent chemo/radiation begun 8/2/05 (Cisplatin). Received 2 cycles cisplatin, 38 radiation treatments. Completed course 9/27/05.
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