The suggestion below is a good one about the diverticulitis. Research the drugs she is taking and see what the side effects are. If any of them say nausea and vomiting stop them. You might try cancer treatment centers of america. http://www.cancercenter.com/ they are in your area and you can call them or go to the front of cancer compass log in and talk with someone. You definately need your doctor to check her bone marrow for a re-occurance. My nausea and vomiting lasted 2.5 years but I was able to control it. Radiation greatly increased the problem and I only had 10 days.
What did she eat before the onset, she may be really allergic to something. You need to work on the ph of her body and keep it at 7.4 there are natural remedies to help with that and also natural remedies for the UTI. Cranacton daily can help with that. Hope this helps MMS
On 1/15/2008
shannonsd wrote:
Hello, I am new here - and a little desperate for some help/adivce. My Mom was diagnosed with MM around 3 years ago. She had a transplant 2 years ago and afterwards she was told she was in remission. At the beginning of 2007 she was hospitalized for what we thought was a bad stomach bug. She couldn't hold anything down for days, then it happened again in March then again in June and now it is happening around every 6 weeks. I just got the call that she is again in the hospital tonight with this bad stomach bug. Her doctor said he's tested her for everything and cant find the cause so she is just going to have to live with it. I can't stand that she will have to go through this every 6 weeks. It is unbelievable to me that a doctor would just give up like that. She goes through severe dehydration and nausea, which makes the throwing up worse until the hospital can get her on an IV and it still takes a minimum of a 3 day hospital stay to get her to where she can hold down food. She also has frequent UTI's but we are unsure if they are related to the stomach bug.
Have any of you experienced anything like this and if so, can you tell me what your treatment consisted of. Can anyone recommend a doctor that specializes in multiple myeloma around the Dallas area? Would it be worth a trip to Little Rock to see if the Multiple Myeloma Intstitute can help?
Any information you can share would be so much appreciated.