queasy in mornings?

Oh my gosh, I have been talking about this with my husband frequently. Every morning... right this very minute, I am sitting here at work barely able to hold on. My stomach is bumping around. I had a couple of healthy bms so I know I'm not backed up. I have been very diligent on my gf diet, but mornings are the worse time of the day for me. I avoid making appointments in the mornings and getting to work is a journey of quiet moans. Good thing I drive alone! I get to my desk and hope that there won't be any staff or students needing me for a while. I have Zofran which I take when the nausea factor rises to a level where I think I might get physically sick. Zofran is a great medication. The only side effect I have noticed it that my eyes get blurry. I don't feel sleepy or drugged.. just the eye thing. I keep looking at the clock because by 9:30 or 10:00 I know I will feel better.

Have you tried Zofran? The generic is much cheaper - it is called Ondansetron. You just let it melt on your tongue... within 4 minutes the nausea is pretty much gone.

Good luck.

My daughter is often nauseous in the mornings and forces a few bites down so that her pills don't make it worse. She chews an over the counter pink pill called, NauZeem(SP?). It helps.

Gosh, this is all sooooooo helpful! My kid is going on a trip with his school band in two weeks. We think he'll be fine, but I want to make sure I've provided for every eventuality. (He really is almost out of the flare... should he go backward, symptom-wise, my husband will just have to go along on the trip - I can't, too close to the hip surgery.)
I went out today and bought Altoids (they'd worked for me...) and I found the Nauzene!

Interesting, CM - sometimes he'll have some Powerade or Gatorade in the morning. Hmmm.

As a rule, he's not been a breakfast eater, though through the years he's had spells when he has eaten breakfast. He did eat something this morning to see if that would settle things... and I haven't heard anything from him or the school, so I guess he worked through it.

Sherry - he did complain about heartburn at night some months back; and I know he has a bad postnasal drainage that has sometimes made him queasy (and used to cause ear infections when he was little.) I'll ask him about the "heartburn" and if that's still happening we'll ask his GI when we see her in late May.....I had hoped at the moment it was his eating habits: a lot and heavy food late at night.

You all are the greatest!!

I'm giving him Claritin... that used to work for both of us, then last year it stopped doing anything for me and I switched to Zyrtec. It was in winter, not allergy season that he'd complained about the heartburn.... I can't wait until I talk to him later today, ask him more questions (re PND, the nausea, how many poops today and how they were...)
I have assumed over the years - he's complained of morning nausea on and off for years, maybe even before the UC diagnosis...? I've assumed it was mostly PND, so mostly I've suggested he get something into his stomach to dilute it. But maybe that's only part of the story, maybe sometimes it's been UC-related nausea.... ?
He'll be so excited with the ideas for helping him, in any case.

He did a 14 day course of Flagyl mid-March to the beginning of April, and the queasiness has gone on and off for maybe 5 years.
He doesn't eat anything in the morning for the most part, maybe some soup or crackers, yesterday leftover pizza... I doubt he's eaten a banana in the past year, and most likely never in the morning. He's never eaten typical "breakfast foods."
This morning he was fine, though just before taking his pills he said he had gunk running down his throat, said he thought that was the culprit in the queasiness - so that would point to allergies.

Thanks - good ideas both: Zyrtec and switching to taking it at night. I'll give it a try!
My older one had bad allergies for a while and was prescribed... Clarinex? I think was what finally helped him - just those springtime allergies. Now, either he's outgrown them or where he is at college the pollen issues are different!