| Joined: May 2009 Posts: 72 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | Supporting Member (50+ posts) Joined: May 2009 Posts: 72 | Some days my husband doesn't have nausea, other days it is really bad. He is getting both radiation and chemo. We keep thinking it is the chemo b/c his nausea gets a bit better the farther away from the chemo treatment we get. Some foods also trigger the nausea, especially any type of animal fat. It seems everyone is different. Nausea is a constant companion. I think the radiation must cause some nausea b/c after his treatment each day he feels more nauseous. The meds help a lot when he has a bad day. Hang in there......
Vanessa
Jeff age 49 DX 5/8/09 Tonsil cancer T2N2BMO. Tonsillectomy 5/14/09. TX: Cisplatin 3x's every 21 days w/ 33 Rad concurrent. 2-3 nodes on right neck affected. PEG 7/10/09. Chemo/rad start 6/12/9, TX finished 7/28/09. Extended TX 3 more chemo/Cisplatin/5FU/Docetaxil start 9/11, Clean PET 10/29/09.
| | | | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | Never had nausea with any treatment here. =That has to be miserable.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April. --- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
| | | | Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,409 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,409 | Well turns out neither my RO nor my regular GP were terribly interested in prescribing the magic weed. But meanwhile the latter sent me to a gastro doc. The upshot: in a couple of hours I'm having a gastroscopy to see if there's something else going on down there. Be nice to have some answers, but I've been through these things enough to know that solid answers often aren't forthcoming! Oh well, at least I'll get half an hour's sleep on the Versed....
David (2, that is)
Last edited by David2; 07-17-2009 09:25 AM.
David 2 SCC of occult origin 1/09 (age 55)| Stage III TXN1M0 | HPV 16+, non-smoker, moderate drinker | Modified radical neck dissection 3/09 | 31 days IMRT finished 6/09 | Hit 15 years all clear in 6/24 | Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome kicked in a few years after treatment and has been progressing since | Prostate cancer diagnosis 10/18
| | | | Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 104 Senior Member (100+ posts) | Senior Member (100+ posts) Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 104 | One can't rx medical marijuana in CA w/o a special license anyway, so unless your RO or GP have that license, that's a dead end.
GM, for John who has SCC Rt tonsil with 3+ nodes, Stage T1 N2b MX; surgery 04/09; Rad X 33 completed 7/14/09...f/u imaging and scopes looking good as of Feb 2011
| | | | Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,409 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,409 | Yes... my oncologist mentioned something like that although I'd never heard of it. But if I decide to go that route I have the name of a doc with the proper creds. Thanks for the tip.
David 2 SCC of occult origin 1/09 (age 55)| Stage III TXN1M0 | HPV 16+, non-smoker, moderate drinker | Modified radical neck dissection 3/09 | 31 days IMRT finished 6/09 | Hit 15 years all clear in 6/24 | Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome kicked in a few years after treatment and has been progressing since | Prostate cancer diagnosis 10/18
| | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 7 Member | Member Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 7 | My husband Jim has started his second cycle of chemo and has 19 radiation left. They increased his Fentanyl patch to 100 mcg which helps his pain and he is taking Decadron daily for the next week to help his nausea. It is amazing how much difference the Decadron has made because he was nauseous all the time. We are hoping they will let him continue taking the Decadron until he is at least finished with chemo in 2 weeks.
Diagnosed 05/09 PET clear 05/09 has not spread to lymph nodes 39 radiation scheduled, 8 completed Cisplatin & Taxotere, 2 months scheduled, 1st & 2nd treatments finished SCC Basaloid Features, BOT, T2M0N0 G3/3
| | | | Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,409 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,409 | Here's an update on the medical marijuana issue. A friend brought me over 2 kinds of cannabis lozenges and I've tried them both now. The result: nada. No affect on the nausea, no stimulation of appetite, no other discernible effects.... although I did note excess fatigue several hours after trying the first type, but not the second. I'm debating whether to try two of them at a time. Not hopeful, alas.
D2
David 2 SCC of occult origin 1/09 (age 55)| Stage III TXN1M0 | HPV 16+, non-smoker, moderate drinker | Modified radical neck dissection 3/09 | 31 days IMRT finished 6/09 | Hit 15 years all clear in 6/24 | Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome kicked in a few years after treatment and has been progressing since | Prostate cancer diagnosis 10/18
| | | | Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,409 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,409 | Last add: scored some Marinol capsules, which I'd read about disparagingly in these posts so wasn't particularly keen to try. They seem to work the same as the other stuff, that is, no effect on nausea or appetite nor other overt effects. But they do make me tired so help with sleep. Oh well.
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