Re: Need Help with Nausea from Chemo

[Guest guest]

Hi!

My husband took Marinol (a derivated from cannabis), Anzelmet, Compazyne, and

Ativan. He alternated these drugs, for example, Anzelmet in the morning, after

6-8 hours Compazyne, after 6-8 hours Marinol, and at bed time Compazine +

Ativan. It was the single way he could control his nauseas. Ask your doctor. I'd

like to give you some holistic medicine, but I don't know about them.

Warmly

ura

Darlene Gant wrote:

I am desperately seeking any remedies or ideas for nausea from chemo

(adriamycin and cytoxin). I am on a dose dense regimen and will receive this

cocktail every two weeks. First dose was the 6th and the first 2 days I was

o.k., after that it has been hell. I am completely holistic, however nothing on

the alternative side was working for this aggressive cancer - her2neu, E & P - and

44lymphnodes involved only on one side -- lots more and I am only 40. I am

trying this chemo to try to survive for my 5 year old son but it is brutal.

Nausea is awful and constant, complete fatigue 24/7, and major confusion/brain

fog, and equilibrium problems now too. Coffee enema seemed to help a little. ANY

SUGGESTIONS --- PLEASE ANYONE?????

[Guest guest]

Hi Darlene!

Have you tried Ginger? Ginger Capsules, Tea, Cookies, etc?

Ginger is usually pretty good for Nausia.

Health, Hope, Joy & Healing :

May you Prosper, even as your Soul Prospers 3 2

Ruby

Email advice is not a substitute for medical treatment.

| Darlene Gant wrote:

| I am desperately seeking any remedies or ideas for nausea from chemo

[Guest guest]

Tried some ginger candy that was soft --- did not work too well. But great ideas

- thanks.

D

Ruby wrote:

Hi Darlene!

Have you tried Ginger? Ginger Capsules, Tea, Cookies, etc?

Ginger is usually pretty good for Nausia.

[Guest guest]

Dear Darlene

Try this as soon as vomitting starts. Take one cardamom, remove outer

shell and put all grains in a metal cup. Pound the grains till they

become powder. add 1 tsp to 2 tsp honey. mix well. lick honey with

the help of index finger of right hand (left hand if you are lefty).

Do not try to swallow, let honey dissolve slowly throughly saliva and

then swallow as more saliva cuumulates.

One blood cancer patient, who had not eaten anything for 3 weeks and

was vomitting out even fruit juices, started retaining it in just two

hours after starting this! and another GERD patient, who was not

retaining anything except fruit juices, started retaining rice, oats

gravy and veg soup!

Hope you will try this and communicate your experience for the

benifit of community of people!

dr bhate

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> Hello All: I am desperately seeking any remedies or ideas for

nausea from chemo (adriamycin and cytoxin).

[Guest guest]

Ginger should be used with lemon juice.

Please check up for complete receipe:

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dr bhate

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> Tried some ginger candy that was soft --- did not work too well. But

great ideas - thanks.

[Guest guest]

I've heard bad things about chemo and that it does no good. I'm not a doctor,

but maybe you ought to look into the possibility of not doing chemo, at all.

[Guest guest]

Research indicates taking sodium thiosulfates reduces the toxic effect

of chemotherapy. Sodium thiosulfates are those anti chlorinator stuff

you buy from petshops and swimming pool suppliers. 10 drops per glass

of water for a 10% sodium thiosulfates might help.

Ted

[Guest guest]

I can recommend a new drug called Kytril, which has helped my friend

with nausea from very strong chemo (cisplatin). The main drawback of

Kytril is that it's very expensive and may not be covered by insurance.

My friend's oncologist gives him free samples from the drug company.

It comes in tablets.

[Guest guest]

Is this safe to ingest?

Ted wrote:

Research indicates taking sodium thiosulfates reduces the toxic effect

of chemotherapy. Sodium thiosulfates are those anti chlorinator stuff you buy

from petshops and swimming pool suppliers. 10 drops per glass of water for a 10%

sodium thiosulfates might help.

Ted

[Guest guest]

Here are some websites with natural remedies that might help

http://www.armstrongclinic.com/Homeopathic%20Remedies-%20Chemo.pdf

http://www.refluxissues.com/ms/news/526670/main.html

From: Darlene Gant

Subject: Need Help with Nausea from Chemo

[Guest guest]

Something that strongly appears to be worth looking at as an alternative

to chemo -- and certainly as an side-effect reducing, effectiveness

increasing adjunct to it -- would be intravenous vitamin C. Here are

four good sites on it:

http://www.canceraction.org.gg/inext.htm

http://www.maryclinic.com http://www.orthomed.com/cancer.htm

http://www.brightspot.org/cresearch/ivccancer.shtml

Best, RB

  Posted by: " victor martinez " vmtz2001@... vmtz2001  

Date: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:03 pm (PDT)

I've heard bad things about chemo and that it does no good. I'm not a

doctor, but maybe you ought to look into the possibility of not doing

chemo, at all.

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 6/11/06 10:50:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

dgant_1@... writes:

> Tried some ginger candy that was soft --- did not work too well. But great

> ideas - thanks.

> D

>

Hi D,

I am also taking the chemo/alternative route and this is my experience.

Taxol/Carbo/Avastin 6 hour drip every 3 weeks. Day one and two are great due to

the

drugs they give you to keep your body from rejecting the treatment. Day 3 and

4 I feel the cells in my body being killed off, good and bad and the nausea

starts. Days five thru seven it is hard to keep anything in my stomach for any

length of time. By day eight things start to improve.

Chemo kills any cells that have a high turnover rate. The stomach lining

replaces itself every week, hence it's problem with chemo. I don't think there

is

any way around this because if you stopped it from happening, you would also

be stopping the chemo from doing its job.

I have found some things help. Probiotics such as yogurt and Primal Defense

(Garden of Life) to help restore necessary intestinal bacteria, eat only foods

that are easily digested (think mushy baby foods) and alkaline mushy foods. I

drink only distilled water at this time. I have also found that Essaiac tea

helps. It is a nasty 3 days for me, but I haave found it is a whole lot worse if

I don't follow the above.

Hope this helps,

Gayla

[Guest guest]

Thanks alot. Tried Nux Vomica and a chinese herb - but both not helping.

However essential oils tend to help a little to squelch the feeling and the high

sensitivity to smells.

Darlene

[Guest guest]

Darlene :

I'm sorry you are having trouble with nausea...

Just wondering....didn't Dr. Monus have any help for you?

Lina

Thanks alot. Tried Nux Vomica and a chinese herb - but both not helping.

However essential oils tend to help a little to squelch the feeling and the high

sensitivity to smells.

Darlene

[Guest guest]

Darlene:

Just noticed the following in a brochure about " Seagest " , a product available

from homecure.com: " . . . a digestive aid so protein rich, so absorbable and so

remarkable that even cancer patients have reported improvement of digestive or

immune system problems from chemotherapy. " Might be worth a look.

Best,

RB

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> Darlene :

> I'm sorry you are having trouble with nausea...

> Just wondering....didn't Dr. Monus have any help for you?

> Lina

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> Thanks alot. Tried Nux Vomica and a chinese herb - but both not helping.

However essential oils tend to help a little to squelch the feeling and the high

sensitivity to smells.

> Darlene

>