Not sure why he started feeling badly so quickly. What you are describing, like Gary said, sounds like a cisplat response. Anyways it hits us all differently. I used Emend for 3 days following chemo counting the day of, daily Zofran and compazine as required. Some days smell got to me and some days they didn't.

Tim Stoj
60 yr old. Dx Jun 06 with BOT Stage IV. Neck dissesction on 19 Jun 06. Started Tx on 21 Aug 06/completed 33 IMRTs and 3 CT (2 Cisplat & 1 Carboplat) on 5 Oct 06.