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The solution to the two Hurricane weekend turned out to be pretty simple. The anti nausea medicine that I am taking was originally prescribed for 3 times a day back in November. In January when I got a refill along with a few other new prescriptions the doctor changed it to twice a day. I really didn't think much about it at the time. My pain medication had changed and two other new drugs were added. I think I just assumed that it was a different dosage.

So over the weekend I was taking the anti nausea medicine every 12 hours. When I spoke to the oncology nurse on Monday (Note: The term speaking may be overstating my side of the conversation. Grunts may be more like it. :-)) we talked about the meds and she was considering something else when I mentioned that I was taking the anti nausea medicine once every 12 hours. She changed that to once every 8 hours. That was when I remembered that the initial prescription was for every 8 hours. A quick look at the paperwork in the prescriptions folder and sure enough in January it was changed to every 12 hours.

I switched to every 8 hours and that seems to have done the trick for the nausea. I took a look at the log for the weekend and sure enough the "events" were all 8 hours or more after taking the nausea medicine. When I was looking for some type of pattern I looked at just the recent changes in the medication like my even newer pain meds.

Now that the nausea is taken care of the biggest problem is mouth sores and the ever present mucus issues. Chemotherapy disrupts fast growing cells. Unfortunately it is not as precise as just targeting the cancer cells. While going after the cancer cells the drug also gets some good cells. In this case it also effects cells in my mouth an lips. The pain meds help some but not as much as I would like.