Re: Need advice - TRUDY... Read this.

October 2, 2010

Oh Trudy honey, I'm sorry... Okay.. lets fix you... Yes, that healthy appetite is gonna hurt you.. small meals and lots of them scattered throughout the day. Instead of eating 2 or 3 big meals, take what you'd normally eat and turn it into many little meals. Some things are not going to agree with you.. It's great that you can eat but the nausea is gonna bite you in the butt. First off... The very best thing to get this under control is the BRAT diet.. Banana's, Rice, Applesauce, Toast. That and clear liquids. You need to do this for at least 24 hours to get the nausea

under control. Ginger ale and 7up work too. As much of that as you can handle as well. Don't let it go flat, just drink it cool not cold. Junior mints and Ginger snaps help too. When I was struggling my way thru treatment I couldn't tell if I was nauseous or hungry. I assumed the worst that it was nausea and didn't eat. I hated the damn nausea. That was probably the worst side effect of all of them. Even worse than losing my hair. You really have me worried with that tremor. I have a funny feeling that it's one of your meds that is causing it though... Something just isn't right. I'm glad you're going to the Neuro soon. Try the BRAT diet, the ginger ale and the junior mints and ginger cookies. Send the hubs out for a quick grocery store run.

Clear liquids and the BRAT diet should help a bunch.. once you've got it under control, you'll know how to deal with it going forward.. if eating is bringing it on, just do smaller meals.. Like 8 or 9 a day. Hang in there punkin....Hugs,Teri From: "trudykinsey@..." <trudykinsey@...>Hcv < >Sent: Sat, September 25, 2010 11:17:12 PMSubject: [ ] Need advice

Well, it seems the awful naseau has struck. With every passing hour I am getting more naseated. All I can do is sip a bit at a time. I'm afraid if I don't drink enough it will just get worse. My bigest fear is that I will throw up the Riba pills. Drinking enough to get all my meds down makes me so ill. I know I need to start eating smaller meals, but I still have my " healthy " appetite. That is probably contributing to the nasuea, eating too much at a time. I have to figure this out cause I can't stay sick like this. All I have been able to drink is small sips of Sprite...been sipping a 20 ounce all day. Tommorrow will be hell cause I haven't been able to get my fluids down. Quess I'm just whiney tonight LoL.... God, I hate being nasueated. I would gladly just go ahead and throw up except for the Riba pills..

FYI I haven't mentioned it but my tremor and stutter is getting worse. Every body at my little surprise birthday dinner was so nice; I only spoke once and couldn't get the words out, wasn't even sure what the words were ! They took it in stride...but I didn't try again. I'm getting pretty good a keeping quiet and just observing. Hubby is used to me be a magpie and constant chatter. Not anymore. I see the nuerologist in a week.

Anyway, when I first joined yall here there were several suggestions of combatting the nausea... Please refesh me cause I don't remember. Didn't sombody say Junior Mints?? Or ginger cookies ??

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