How I fought nausea and fatigue during radiation

What brought me comfort and support during the radiation treatment itself, the first night doctors didn’t really tell me much about what was going to happen. I threw up for 4-5 hours that night, I felt extremely nauseous, and I just had nothing left to vomit.

One thing that, after asking a lot of questions and calling the emergency room and getting no responses, I found out I could take Zofran, which is an anti-nausea medicine, that you literally just put on your tongue and let it dissolve into your mouth and then go through your body that way. I was taking that 2, 3, 4 times a day because it did help my nauseousness. That, combined with the red meat, probably made me feel substantially better, even though I still felt horrible. I knew when the Zofran was starting to wear off because the nausea was really starting to come back. So the iron supplement, hence the red meat, and Zofran really helped a tremendous amount. The only night I did throw up was that first Monday night, and I believe the Zofran and the red meat helped keep everything down. I still couldn’t describe on a scale of one to ten, because it’s so off the scale, how nauseous I felt, but I do believe the Zofran and the red meat helped tremendously.