[NStewart]

Re: Best foods if still vomiting 3 weeks post transplant?

by NStewart on Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:48 pm

I had nausea for at least 3 months post transplant. None of the medications I was given helped. While in the hospital. I could tolerate plain yogurt, water, tea, and chicken broth. It was almost im­possible to get enough of these things for a meal no matter what I put on my menu. When I got home, I gradually was able to keep melon down. Then some other sweet things. It was at least 3 months before eggs, meats, fish, vegetables and other fruits were somewhat tolerated. Just last year I finally could tolerate oranges 7 years post transplant. I still can't tolerate anything with basil in it.

Give yourself time. Your ability to keep foods down and your appetite will gradually improve. It's not fun, but for me was part of the process. I kept trashcans with plastic bags lining them in every room so that I wouldn't have far to travel when I vomited.

Nancy in Phila

[dianaiad]

Re: Best foods if still vomiting 3 weeks post transplant?

by dianaiad on Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:55 pm

Try, well, whatever you can try will work.

I found, this last time, that 'milk tea' worked wonders.

There was this little Chinese tea shop close to my transplant center, and the owner would make me a special 'milk tea' that he gave to other cancer patients and pregnant women. Bless him.

It was an iced matcha (not just 'green tea,' but matcha, which uses the entire leaf as a powder stirred into the drink, not brewed from the leaf then the leaf discarded), brewed, iced, filled with milk and sugar. Not sweetener. Sugar.

Settled my tummy right down.

Something similar, not quite the same but almost, was Starbucks matcha iced green tea latte with two sugars.

I eventually learned to make something pretty close at home; matcha powder for a cup of hot tea.

Then you ice it in a large glass, fill the rest of it up with milk, and put sugar in it.

I do not know why it works. But it did, and evidently not just for me.

Perhaps it will work for you, too.

[Stann]

Re: Best foods if still vomiting 3 weeks post transplant?

by Stann on Wed Apr 11, 2018 2:42 pm

After transplant I couldn’t hold anything down for 3 days. I was on all standard medications, patches, etc. On a whim, I asked if they had Marinol (dronabinol, which is synthetic THC, the main active ingredient in marijuana). And they did. I took half of the dose they offered, and within 45 minutes I was perfectly fine.

I’m not a marijuana “activist”!! And do not believe most of the claims out there. But when it comes to nausea, there is no doubt that it works. It also helps with getting to sleep.

For the out-of-the-blue nausea I get a few times a month, I take Ativan .