"Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 624 | Erik is right on -- forget the Compazine, it isn't working well enough to handle your husband's nausea. If his doctors and nurses do not have him on one of the effective anti-emetics, he is being ill-served and you need to go to bat for him in this. Insist that he be prescribed effective medications. Now, if he does take these (Kytril, Zofran or Anzemet) and they don't seem to work when taken as directed, then go back and ask for more help. Sometimes despite everything nausea is hard to control but right now he needs a cannon and sounds like he's been given a BB gun.
Gail
CG to husband Barry, dx. 7/21/05, age 66, SCC rgt. tonsil, BOT, 2 nodes (stg. IV), HPV+, tonsillectomy, 7x carboplatin, 35x tomoTherapy IMRT w/ Ethyol @ Johns Hopkins, thru treatment 9/28/05, HPV vaccine trial 12/06-present. Looking good!
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