If you vomit within half an hour of taking TEMODAR® (temozolomide), notify your doctor immediately. He/she may prescribe a make-up dose on Day 6 of therapy. If you vomit before taking the medication because you are nervous about therapy, your doctor may be able to prescribe antinausea medications for you to take before therapy begins.

Radiation therapy effects only those areas being treated. If the patient is receiving radiation therapy to their abdomen then the patient may experience some nausea from their treatment. There are excellent medications available now that almost always allow good control of this nausea. Often times the doctor finds the nauseated radiation patient is nauseated from chemotherapy, other medications (most commonly pain medicines) or the flu and not the radiation treatment. RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE

No, it does not inevitably or eventually lead to breast cancer. Most fibrocystic conditions are completely benign. There is a very small subset of women with fibrocystic problems who are predisposed to breast cancer. This can be identified by breast biopsy or sometimes by mammography.

The answer is not clear. Most emetophobics have great skill at fighting nausea. They will tell you that they felt very ill but lay down until the nausea passed. Some use prescription anti-nausea drugs like Tigan or Compazine. Others use tricks like ice cubes. Some claim that their years of fear have left them unable to vomit. Many try to bolster their immune systems through vitamins and herbal remedies.

There isn't a ready, out-of-the-box cure for emetophobia or any other phobia. Some people suggest desensitizing phobics to vomit. Densensitization supposedly culminates with the phobic inducing vomiting. But that isn't the best option. This is because many phobics are already around vomiters (usually their children; additionally, phobic health care workers are exposed to their patients, and phobic teachers are exposed to their students).

I find that my phobia has varied in intensity over the years. There was a time when I was about 16 that I thought I was cured; I hardly ever worried about vomiting and preventing it then. When I was 18, it came back suddenly and with a vengeance. It did not prevent me from doing things I wanted to do that fall starting college, however. My fear gradually eased to the point where I call myself close to being cured.

Sometimes patients are nauseated and may vomit after surgery. This is most common with abdominal procedures, gynecologic surgery, and eye surgery. It is more common in women than men, and more common in people who are prone to motion sickness. We take numerous measures to prevent nausea and vomiting after surgery, including using anesthetics that have an anti-nausea effect and administering anti-nausea medications before, during, and after surgery.

The fact most surprising to non-phobics is that the great majority of emetophobics rarely, if ever, vomit. An emetophobic is a person who has been in car collisions more often than they have vomited. Most phobics can count the number of times they have vomited on the fingers of one hand. Some emetophobics have survived pregnancy and childbirth, appendicitis, and gall bladder operations without as much as a single retch.

Most phobics suffer terrible panic attacks when they have nausea or imagine that they do. These panic attacks are much worse for them than vomiting is for an ordinary person. Yet the act remains unthinkable. The phobia interferes with educations, careers, marriages, and family relationships. Many phobics take time away from work or school unnecessarily because they fear either vomiting themselves or being exposed to people who can pass germs that will cause them to vomit.

Not in all cases, but in many. Thickening of the skin, pebbling, darkening of the stain, and spontaneous bleeding can all occur if left untreated.

It is common belief that the majority of pregnant women have nausea in the morning only. Less than 20% of pregnant women actually has nausea only in the morning ("morning sickness"). The majority of pregnant women (80%) have NVP throughout the day "all-day sickness". Speak with your health care professional for treatment recommendations.

No: Nausea is a pretty common side effect of the pill in the first 3 cycles. It's a good idea to take the pill with food or at bedtime. Taking the pill on an empty stomach may aggravate the nausea. Yes: It's important that you see your doctor. Your doctor may switch you to a pill that doesn't cause as much nausea.

This is what some phobics have conjectured as to their great vomitory continence. The act of vomiting is controlled by the brain. Specifically, there is a vomiting center, located in the medulla oblongota of the brain. Vomiting is a more primitive function of the brain. Some phobics believe that as a result of years of fear and daily cogitation, the conscious part of their brain has overridden the vomiting center.

No! No! No! Nothing could be more destructive to the relationship between an emetophobic and their loved one than that. Some (not most) adult emetophobes say they developed emetophobia because their parents made them vomit at one time or another. There are even adult emetophobes who wound up worse than before when someone tried to "cure" them by infecting them or otherwise making them vomit.

These are not the expected outcomes, but they do occur. Call the Counselor if you experience vomiting or diarrhea frequently. Certain food can cause diarrhea. Yes, you can still vomit if, for example, you are sick, eat too fast or swallow poorly chewed foods.

No. In this operation the stomach and the area where the bile empties to the bowel is bypassed. You will probably have the dry heaves. If you vomit bile or acid, it is a bad sign and you should contact the surgeon or your doctor immediately.

Yes. Study shows that it is just a natural tendency that as people age, several changes occur in the body. This unavoidably leads to the declining of the immune

Direct person-to-person spread of brucellosis is extremely rare. Mothers who are breast-feeding may transmit the infection to their infants. Sexual transmission has also been reported. For both sexual and breast-feeding transmission, if the infant or person at risk is treated for brucellosis, their risk of becoming infected will probably be eliminated within 3 days. Although uncommon, transmission may also occur via contaminated tissue transplantation.