just when it seemed my vomiting was under control- it came back :(

So the past..... I don't know couple weeks I've stopped puking as much. Until yesterday. I'm on abx (clindamycin and rocephin IV) and have to infuse benadryl first. I learned that benadryl works on nausea so that would explain why I'm not puking as much during the week.

I have Saturday and Sunday as my off days and holy cow!!!! It hasn't got any better. I switched nausea medications again and they aren't working as well as I thought they were apparently. I keep puking up my SUPER expensive probiotics. Being on clindamycin it's extremely important that I get enough probiotics. I do not need c diff on top of my laundry list of cap that's wrong. Ugh!!!!

It's beginning to feel like I've tried everything. I drink and eat ginger like it's going out of style. I've done pills, homeopathics, suppositories and every single natural remedy I've heard of. It's very stubborn. The dissapointment of taking something (even 25 MG of promethazine!!) and it not working is just plain sad.

My esophagus and mouth are raw and burnt from my stomach acid. My chest and stomach muscles are soooo sore from dry heaving. I see dollar signs going down the drain. I don't look like myself. I'm sunken in like a skeleton with skin pulled over it. I'm smaller now than before I had my son. Oy....

I did gain 4 or 5 pounds back this month. So that's something. And if during the week it's better and I just have to deal with it on my off days then that is still improvement. As the next few weeks pass I'm sure this will start turning around. A friend told me that I'm probably at my worst right now, and I really want to believe her. It has to go up from here. If this is the worst I can certainly deal with it. The improvement is so gradual it's sometimes hard to appreciate it.

If anyone has ANY suggestions for nausea and vomiting PLEASE let me know!!!!!

IHL!!!

Hang in there… you really are doing great. You're just in a crappy rough spot.

First, you aren't really vomiting much of the IV abx so unless you are ingesting abx by mouth, you are not tossing them up. Not saying they don't reach your stomach but it's a lesser amount of what you're infusing. So you can relax a little about that.

I am learning more and more about some of my GI issues that started way back when I started taking various abx for chronic sinusitis, bronchitis and upper respiratory infection that lingered for 13 months (turned out it was a fungal infection, which is why none of the abx helped). But about midway through those months and months of various courses of various abx, I started having my severe cramping and vomiting episodes…

My theory on that is—the abx did address some sort of infection going on in my gut and the die off was causing the vomiting or it stirred up the infection, not really addressing it… because I had those episodes once a month for over a year after I started on the abx. OR, the abx stirred up the Bartonella in my gut, causing increased bell's palsy in the gut, etc… and the vomiting episodes.

Regardless, after a couple months of the IV abx, those episodes are gone.

I was given Zofran (Odansetron), metoclopromide, which helped. Not sure if you've tried them.

The rawness from the acid has to be miserable. If you can. try to drink some WARM—not hot herbal tea (mint is so good for nausea) w/ a couple tablespoons of coconut oil or raw butter in it. Something to coat… There are also some spray stuff on the market antiseptic topical treatments for sore throat that might help for a few days.

So… stick with it. You'll probably get past this phase in a week's time. If not, time to talk w/ the doc again… let us know how you're doing!

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OOHH… OK - I read that wrong. Yes, the supps and probiotics are vulnerable but most supps get digested within an hour, if that makes any difference. The probiotics, they need to stay in there for awhile… so just keep shoving them in if you can tolerate it. Maybe cut doses in 1/2 or less and take them more frequently…?

the tea and manuka honey is perfect.

I don't think it will take a couple of months to get past this stage, either. You really should see some impact in a couple of weeks max.

BTW, when you're done w/ treatment or at least in a more reasonable stage… you should think about documenting your story. Like many of us here, you've had a very, very interesting journey that the world should learn about. But yours has been particularly crazy. ;)

-p

Blocking things out is a great coping mechanism. That's a good reason to journal every day… think about it, feel it, process it, and move beyond it. That way you won't have to remember it—it's documented. I have no doubt you will help others by sharing your story.

I'm doing a little better than I've been the past couple of wks. My regular cycle. ;) THanks for asking…

-p

IHL~$ down the drain...shoot..so sux. Wish I had good advice, but just hugs.