Nausea - Can anything be done about it?
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Nausea - Can anything be done about it?
| Sun, 02-29-2004 - 5:46pm |
My DH is in the process of changing meds from Effexor EX to Lexapro. Over the past year he has been experiencing nausea every now & then but this week it has gotten worst. Nausea, Diarrhea, churning stomach & sometimes actually throws up.
I am going to call the Dr. tomorrow but wanted to know from personal experience if anyone experience these symptoms & did something or took something that actually helped.
I think for sure that this is being caused from anxiety. And most probably taking meds.
If this is the case - any body had a solution to their case?
He switched the meds two weeks ago.

At first, this med did make me very sleepy...one time in the emergency room, I fell asleep in a very uncomfortable position, with an IV in my arm, after I'd received a dose of it! But after a while of taking it, my body seems to have adapted to it, and it doesn't make me very sleepy anymore...fortunately, though, I also don't get migraines like I used to, thanks to some preventative meds.
Anyway, sorry to tell so much of my own story...I hope your husband finds a solution to his nausea. As far as I could tell, there isn't anything over-the-counter that helps much with nausea...the one medicine a pharmacist recommended seemed to be just water and sugar when I read the ingredients list! But Phenergan is a pretty standard prescription treatment for it, I think...so maybe that will be an option when your DH can get to the doctor.
Hope he feels better,
Rose
They both suggested a few things of what might be causing it: Probably the withdrawals from getting off the Effexor, Maybe the Lexapro try taking 1/2 the dosage to see if it changes over the next couple of days.
I knew the reason had to be something like that and I told them that he has been having alot of anxiety, lately, along with changing his meds.
And of course the answer to "was their anything he can take to ease the symptoms, in the mean time?"
Only bad news:
No magic remedy to help his symptoms.
He will just have to wait it out another week and see if it gets better.
And if it persist try changing meds again.
The nurse actually said there was something he can perscibe but it makes you VERY VERY sleepy - so that is out of the question since he gets nausea in the morning. No other suggestion from Dr..
The Pharmicist suggested Prilosec, which is over the counter to sooth the stomach.
But nothing definate. Pepto or any of those products are not reccomended for everyday use.
So does that mean that everyone that is going through withdrawls (or from the meds) are told they just have to live like that for 2 to 4 weeks and maybe up to 6 weeks????
It's bad enough switching meds and the changes with that ALONG with feeling like crap for weeks!!!