Vomiting??

[smcd23]

Hubby has been back on hemo since June when the transplant rejected. His #s have looked fantastic (way better than they ever were on PD) and they have finally gotten his blood pressure to a stable, lower level.

However there have been times he felt nauseous and a few times where he actually vomited. The first vomiting incident happened probably over a month ago now. He had dialysis the next day and the nurses asked the standard "any diarrhea, vomiting, fever" stuff and he said that he had thrown up in the middle of the night. She asked him what he had for dinner and we had gone to McDonalds with the kid. She said it was probably the McDonalds and that was that. A week or two later his labs looked so good again, they cut another 15 min off his time. Then I guess last night (I was passed out I didn't hear him get up) he threw up again. It had been a good 10 hours since he had eaten, and he had felt fine all night. He said when he came to bed after like an hour he got really hot and nauseous feeling and then eventually threw up.   

Both times, he has felt much better after throwing up.

Anyone else experience this? We know his lab #'s are good (they did another set of labs after they cut his time down again) and he was otherwise feeling fine he said. And there definitely was no McDonalds last night either.

[GoingThere]

Well it did actually happen to me couple of times when I was on D. I remember especially one episode. I had breakfast, felt fine. After breakfast I sat down to watch some TV and after a while I felt pressure in stomach. Went to bathroom, threw up and felt fine. Never really paid much attention to those episodes. Probably combination of food, kidney disease and dialysis.
 

[Joe]

Check his BP when this happens. The only time I have issues is when my BP gets too low, makes me feel lightheaded and nauseous.

[jeannea]

I used to have nausea a lot on dialysis. It can be all sorts of things. Electrolyte issues, the stress on the body of the actual dialysis, BP, digestion, constipation, etc. If it gets to be a frequent problem, ask the doctor about Zofran. It can help with nausea. Ask for the kind that dissolves on the tongue.

[frankswife]

Frank goes through this too. Sometimes it's dry heaves, sometimes he actually vomits. He always feels better after. It seems to happen every few weeks or so. There is really no pattern to it. He tells his neph and the nurses at the center about it but they don't seem overly worried?

[smcd23]

I wondered if it was BP issues because it seems to happen at night, in the middle of the night, which is after he takes his Norvasc which he only takes at night. Never happens in the morning, or after dialysis (He is on labetalol and clonidine 2x/day) If it happens again and I am awake, I will check his BP since we no longer have an automatic cuff. The nurses never seemed to worried about it  at dialysis, or at least they didn't the last time it happened. I will ask tomorrow what they said after dialysis.

We used to have zofran but we are all out. I can maybe ask his neph for a renewal if it happens again. I am just happy to know hes not the only one who had this happen.