Nausea

[Tmasgio]

Does anyone just out of the blue somethings get nauseaus (sp)?

I sometimes when I am having a bad day get bouts of this and really I am not sick but I think it has something to do with balance and maybe the way my new nerve connections are being nutz with different stimulus.

Just wanted to fish around and see if this happens to anyone else.

Tony

[paul55]

Only on rare occasions do I have bouts with it. I know that a bad case of vertigo can set it off. The way it was explained to me is nausea is strictly a chemical issue in your stomach. My wife suffered from it for over a year when they did the Whipple procedure on her but gave her Compazine to counteract it.

I'm sure there are many things that can cause a chemical unbalance in your stomach that creates the nausea. Just what they all are is a mystery to me. But I do in fact get it from time to time.

Paul

[cindylee]

Tony!!! I do. Right after the surgery for that first year...wowee....now if I get tired, it comes on. If my balance is off, it comes on. And it will come without warning. Not to make me toss my cookies sick, it's just that queasy feeling. Now if I get the least bit over tired, I'm nauseated. There are also times if I move too quickly, or turn too quickly, boy do I get dizzy. And then it's that nausea feeling. It has improved a little since the days right after my surgery, but not much.I just have learned to ignore it. Cindy

[rugger8]

Are you sure you're not pregnant? ;D
I had a few bouts of intense nausea (actually lost my cookies) right before all heck broke loose with my tumor. The nausea had a very sudden onset and I couldn't figure out what the heck was wrong. Even went to the store and got a pregnancy test just to make sure!
Now it strikes me once in a while and I can't figure out why. It doesn't usually last long and isn't that bad. A bit annoying though because it gets me a little stressed out about whats going on inside the old spinal cavity even though I know it's nothing.
Hope it gets better soon....

Kristi

[Teri K.]

Nausea is an issue I have also dealt with. Sometimes it's just from over exhaustion or sometimes with traveling or motion. I have been using over the counter Bonine, which has an active ingredient of 25 mg of Meclizine, when I get that nauseous feeling and it works great.

[cindylee]

Kristi...if I was it would be in the Enquirer as another Immaculate Conception! Cindy

[john8888]

Tony

I have had sudden dizzy and nauseous symptoms.

My guess at what was happening to us is that the symptoms of nausea are “sea sickness” due to the lack of balance.

John

[Tmasgio]

Thank you all for the replies. It is not that bad but sometimes it does catch me off guard.

[susan]

This is something I just finished treatment for (insurance ran out!)
I've had a balance problem since surgery in January. For the first couple of weeks after coming home I felt like I was on a boat. That eventually got better, but I have had a continuous undercurrent of nausea and poor balance.
I was finally for evaluated by a physical therapist who specializes in vestibular problems. She did some tests (you stand on a sensor in a booth and they manipulate your surroundings). It showed I had an inner ear problem (didn't have that prior to surgery). She said it could be from my spinal cord (your cervical spine may play a part in balance) or it could have been from positioning during surgery (they flip you face down after you are anesthetized). At any rate, she gave me gaze stabilization exercises (you focus on a spot on the wall and turn your head back and forth and up and down) and I did "Disco Ball Therapy". I did the gaze exercise and some balance exercises in a room with the lights off and the disco ball. There is a light inside and it spins so that there is a constant moving light pattern. It is supposed to desensitize you to movement in your visual field. It worked for me. I am no longer nauseous and by balance is better.
Hope I don't regress since I can't go anymore!