Chemo Nausea akin to bad morning sickness?

I found Pramin to be brilliant.

Don't know it this will help but I only had mild morning sickness for the first trimester of pregnancy, my onco said there seems to be a link regarding that?? 
My nausea post chemo - only 3 days ago is like a mild morning sickness, more like a full feeling and lack of appetite, so I just have buttered toast and a cuppa since I have to take drugs for the 3 days after chemo with food.  I am managing and the nausea is gone after eating, the rest of the day Im okay.  I take a Pramin after breakfast if it is bad, it works for me.
OMG it is such a rigamarole I had to make a list of stuff to do and put it on the kitchen island so I can remember, it's the new kinda "normal". ;)

I had horrendous all day sickness with pregnancy and I’ve had a few days with chemo but nothing a maxalon couldn’t fix. All my other pregnancy side effects have been felt in full force as well mainly the heartburn but hey there are drugs for that! And the good news is you can generally have all of them unlike pregnancy where you get none of them. 

Try not to get ahead of yourself on it though but do have the medical team on speed dial as often they can tell you what to take to eliminate/manage side effects over the phone 

Yes yes. I had terrible morning sickness with my 1st son and it is very similar but I also had terrible constipation. I akin it to morning sickness without the joy of becoming a mother. Anyways I eventually ended up on extra days of dexamethasone (given pre and post chemo for nausea), stemitil 8 hrly (as maxalon didn't agree with me ) and ondastron just prior eating. I also needed medication for reflux and constipation. However we really won't know until we have it but if you feel really unwell despite what they give you first time round don't slog it out but see a Dr. They will adjust your meds each cycle if you let them know how things are going.

On taxol and herceptin I had no nausea just heartburn. 

My chemo was different from yours, but I experienced nausea very much like morning sickness (lasted my whole first pregnancy). I lost 6kg with chemo. But I just ate whatever I felt like (including a glass of wine after week 1 of each 3week cycle. 
Good luck, and hoping you don’t get any nausea.

Hi there @LisaJHM...agree with the above. As it happens, I had hideous morning (all day and all night) sickness with all my three pregnancies. Was hospitalised and put on a drip to keep me hydrated. Middle pregnancy I went from 117 pounds to 92 pounds in sixteen weeks. I had the same chemo as you AC followed by taxol and herceptin, and the first thing I bought was a big plastic bucket from Kmart, expecting to upchuck day and night. Got every other side effect, but my dear old bucket remains a virgin. Never threw up once. The point of my rabbiting on is this...just because pregnancy caused severe vomiting does not mean chemo will do the same. Different causes for both. As for hair, I used to sit on mine as I had grown it since age 11. Made the impending hair loss my own family gig. My daughter and daughter in law brushed and plaited it one last time. My husband of 37 years cut the pigtail off, and my son shaved me a #2 Marine buzz cut. My (at that time) 14 month old grandson cheered from his highchair. Very big issue for me, but my lost hair was under my terms, not the cancer.  Hang in there, bald and bold can create it's own positives.

Hi @LisaJHM.

Ondansetron is the bom for nausea.


Wow,  that really ticks me off when people don't even get the option to try the cap because oncologists just kibosh it at the start.  You walk in thinkiing you may have some chance of keeping your hair and the bam....shot down in flames without even being given a go at it.
 My first oncologist did that to me, wouldn't even entertain the idea and made me feel like a vein idiot for even asking. I got a new oncologist with a better attitude and changed hospitals.

I had 6 months of AC and Taxol,  used the cold cap and kept my hair.  It thinned all over but was even and no body else could tell the difference. It started regrowing towards the end of taxol and is thicker now than it has ever been in my life.

 It does add a bit of time and yes it is cold but that's the point right?  Yes, there is another layer of worry to add to the whole thing as your hair does keep it's normal shedding routine plus more. I stopped worrying so much after the 3rd AC. I figured if it had hung around that long it was staying.
 There are varying results but some of that is in the way it's fitted and the type of hair that you have. If you have the option to try, go for it.

Just send me a pm if you want any detailed info. 

This is a link to my story on the paxman website.
https://paxmanscalpcooling.com/experiences/testimonials/kerry-muscat

This is my hair the morning of my last chemo treatment.

All the best lovely

Don't get too far ahead of yourself @LisaJHM , not everyone has trouble with nausea, just like not everyone gets morning sickness. It's impossible to know until you start--you have a better chance of getting through without getting the heaves now than at any time in the history of chemo treatment so try not to get too stressed about it until you find out how you react.

The cold caps are a conundrum. They were widely reported as being the solution to chemo induced baldness. The reality is somewhat different. Yes, they work for some people, but they have also caused a great deal of grief when they don't meet expectations. They are both painful and time consuming, which is fine if they work, but awful when they don't. If your oncologist is telling you that you probably won't benefit there will be a reason for that. Sorry if that sounds a bit blunt but it's best to avoid extra disappointed unless the odds are substantially in your favour. Good luck. Mxx

So hard to know. I had the same cocktail and no nausea at all. But then again I didn't have morning sickness either. Best of luck! But you are right, forewarned is forearmed and you know you can get through it. 

@LisaJHM I had three pregnancies but no morning sickness so I am not much help. I felt as though I had eaten something that didn’t agree with me. Everyone has a different reaction. Some people don’t feel nauseous at all. The hospital will give you anti nausea pills to take home. I had to ask my Oncologist  to prescribe the better ones which I can never remember the name of but someone else on here will be able to tell you. They start with O.