Head outside the window trick?

[Guest guest]

Dear Beth,

I know your post was not meant to be funny, but I immediately thought of all the

pets who like to put their heads outside the car window and it suddenly occured

to me that they were trying to keep from upchucking!!!!!!!!!!! LOL Please tell

me how you can squelch the urge to throw up, I have not caught on to that trick

yet. What you are experiencing is awful, but I hope it soon disappears and is

only temporary. When I have dizzy spells I revert to Bonine, which is also good

for nausea, and motion sickness, it settles the

stomach.

I suffer from motion sickness and the last time I crossed the big pond for a

long plane ride, I used those little elastic wrist bands they sell in the drug

stores for motion sickness. Although I am a skeptic, it worked for me. Maybe

it will work for you.

The little metal button is in your pulse and you just apply pressure to it.

Maybe it

works for any kind of nausea. Your counts are doing great, so is it a tradeoff

to be nauseated??????? LOL.

I think the fact that you are responding so well with your blood counts is due

to the fact

that you are younger and we in the older group have been on many other drugs, so

we are slower to respond and our stomachs react to these powerful drugs. I am

getting to the point that I can't take antibiotics or pain meds. You have

responded and the good news is that you won't be needing a BMT. Keep on

truckin'.

Hands & hearts,

Lottie Duthu

[Guest guest]

Lottie,

Thank you for the giggle! Sometimes I can talk myself out of throwing up, not

always (and certainly not while I was on Gleevec--when it was time to blow, I

blew! lol). I was grateful this was one of those times--I took a deep breath and

the nausea passed. This is all new to me, so we'll see how it goes. I went to

bed at 6:15pm last night and slept all night and I'm feeling much better today.

I am taking things one day at a time and sort of " check in " with myself

regularly to see where I'm at and adjust my activities accordingly.

Re my response. I think part of why I'm doing so well is that my body is " naive "

to the drugs out there. I was on Gleevec for less than a year and Sprycel for a

week or so. It seems like the folks with the super suppressed counts and rashes,

etc. were all participants in other trials. In particular, it seems like the

folks that were on HHT trial (I am pretty sure that is the trial drug Jackie was

on) are having a super hard time with low counts. Lottie--weren't you in that

trial as well?

I'm not complaining...really. I did have a little pity party yesterday because I

felt so crappy, but I'm back up and at it again and having a great day at work.

So, I'll take it...

Beth

[ ] Head outside the window trick?

 

Dear Beth,

I know your post was not meant to be funny, but I immediately thought of all the

pets who like to put their heads outside the car window and it suddenly occured

to me that they were trying to keep from upchucking!!!!!!!!!!! LOL Please tell

me how you can squelch the urge to throw up, I have not caught on to that trick

yet. What you are experiencing is awful, but I hope it soon disappears and is

only temporary. When I have dizzy spells I revert to Bonine, which is also good

for nausea, and motion sickness, it settles the

stomach.

I suffer from motion sickness and the last time I crossed the big pond for a

long plane ride, I used those little elastic wrist bands they sell in the drug

stores for motion sickness. Although I am a skeptic, it worked for me. Maybe it

will work for you.

The little metal button is in your pulse and you just apply pressure to it.

Maybe it

works for any kind of nausea. Your counts are doing great, so is it a tradeoff

to be nauseated??????? LOL.

I think the fact that you are responding so well with your blood counts is due

to the fact

that you are younger and we in the older group have been on many other drugs, so

we are slower to respond and our stomachs react to these powerful drugs. I am

getting to the point that I can't take antibiotics or pain meds. You have

responded and the good news is that you won't be needing a BMT. Keep on

truckin'.

Hands & hearts,

Lottie Duthu