Nausea

[Nancy Kay 0]

For my surgeon and my primary care doctor I am an enigma. I never had a problem with nausea before but since my surgery I get nauseous every time I take my medications! I have tried everything to overcome this problem... take them w/food, w/o food, different times of day, crushed in pudding... you name it, I have tried it and always the same result... Nausea... uhggg! Nothing else brings it on except my meds and the docs can't explain it... The last 2 days I took them in a spoonful of Peanut Butter and that seemed to help. Anybody else experience this curiosity?

[BetsyB 9]

I'm surprised that two physicians haven't identified a common-sense rationale for the nausea.

You're putting meds into a tiny little space. They have to hang around in there for a while before moving into the larger stomach below. Ordinarily, they'd go into a much larger stomach with far greater surface area--and they'd move fairly rapidly to the intestine. Now, they're trapped in a tiny space for a period of time.

Almost every med on the planet has nausea as a possible side effect. Put 'em in a smaller stomach, and that tinier stomach is going to become more irritated than a big, huge stomach with a great deal more surface area will become.

I have the same problem, and have not found a terrific solution, but I've found that eating an hour or so after the meds nips the nausea in the bud. I still feel cruddy for that hour or so, but the lingering nausea is stopped.

It would make sense that taking meds with food would have the same effect, but that hasn't worked for me. I have to eat after the meds.

[Nancy Kay 0]

Betsy, Thank you. What you said about side effects of meds makes perfect sense. I too, am surprised my doc's didn't think of it. After a year of this it is getting old! The Peanut Butter seems to be working for the moment. Thanks again for the feedback!