The Great Unknown Cure for Nausea
Vomiting caused internal tear that sent me to ER. Docs sent me home with pills whose side effects include (you guessed it) nausea and vomiting. As nausea rolled in a couple days later, I realized I could be heading towards vomiting and another expensive ER visit, I remembered the Reliefband that got my wife through two phases of long, dose-dense chemo without ever vomiting once. I scrambled through the house and found it in time, strapped it on, and cranked it up to 5 immediately. 40 minutes later I was eating dinner and watching my thumb twitch as the device did its zappy little thing.<br /><br />I see one review that complained about the uncomfortable feeling of the zapping. To each his own. When I'm nauseous, I will literally let you hit my thumb with a hammer if that will put an end to it.<br /><br />It is true, there is a &#34;knack&#34; to using it. Getting it positioned right and tight and keeping it from &#34;moving&#34; as you do lots of other stuff can be a bit of hassle. But nausea makes me want to die, so none of those hassles bother me so long as the thing works.<br /><br />First time I borrowed my wife's Reliefband, I was hopeful but not confident it would work. Half hour later when I realized the nausea was gone, I thought &#34;well, it could just be coincidence&#34; and turned it off thinking, of course, nausea certainly can go away on its own. Minutes later I was pounding that button to turn it up to 5, as the nausea came rolling back.<br /><br />It's a tragedy so few clinicians know that there is a non-drug antidote for nausea that works nearly like a miracle for many of us.
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