@Kahm your input is great, because some of us don't know about other meds for nausea. I was one who got by with the steroids, although I couldn't sleep, and would sleep only four hours a day for the three days I had to take the steroids. The oncology nurses are wonderful and they did tell me to report if I had any nausea, so my guess was there was alternatives to the steroids. Treatment and side effects have greatly improved for many of us these days, but sorry you had such a rough time. Nothing is fair about cancer, is it?