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A doctor's letter to United Heathcare in response to them denying nausea meds for a kid on chemo (hexbear.net)

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[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So fucking evil.

If you've never had chemo, nausea is one of the most common side effects. People develop a pavlovian response to just seeing the chemo bag (I've seen it). People can even get nauseous just driving by the cancer centre. Zofran/ondansetron is one of the most common antiemetics pre-chemo meds and it works pretty fucking good, sometimes they go up to Aprepitant for chemo cause it can still make you super nauseous

[-] reddit@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

I had a specific sandwich the morning of an infusion, 5+ years out I genuinely can't think of that sandwich without getting nauseous and I haven't been back to that restaurant since

[-] qaopjlll@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

I had 4 rounds of chemo over 10 weeks back in the 00s and I still get a little nauseous when I think about some of the videogames that I was playing between treatments