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Persistent Nausea (Update) HELP!!!

Persistent Nausea (Update) HELP!!!

My wife is still expereincing nausea, and it is becoming more prevalent.  Here is the original note I sent back in Nov.

My wife aged seventy, has had a persistent nausea  problem since about February 2008. She wakes up in the morning and feels fine...until she starts to move around. The nausea stays with her until she has some food and liquid in her stomach.  Many times, it subsides, but comes back when she moves around again.   All her tests EGD, Cat Scan, MRI, etc turn out normal.  Hida Scan showed her gall bladder to be very small and only 10% operative, so she had it removed about two months ago. Nausea subsided some for a few days, but it's back almost every day now, and once in a while she has complained of dizziness as well. She hasn't experienced any pain, and has not vomited or had diarreah (diarrhea).  No fever either.  Doesn't seem to be tied to food, meals, etc.
Doctors are stumped.  I hope someone will come up with a good idea of the cause of this.  Any help will be very much apprediated.
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She had the inner ear tests done in February, and they turned out normal.

A month or so ago, her doctor did the breath test and she tested positive for H Pylori bacteria. The first antibiotic he prescribed did away with the nausea about the day after she started taking it. About threee days after she finished the fourteen day treatment, the nausea returned.  Then he prescribed  a stronger regimen.  Nausea stopped after a day or so, then returned within four days and is still with her three weeks later. Now, it sometimes lasts all day.  She felt better this afternoon and took a shower. When she finished, she was hit with the nausea as she was putting on her clothes for church.  Really puzzling, and frustrating seeing her sick, and I can't get anything done about it.


Surely she isn't the only one in this country who is experiencing this condition. Please let me know if you have experienced the same, especially if yo found a cause....again, her doctor is stumped.
Thank you.
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Hi Larry:

I've had great success with a medication called Domperidone (Motilium) but I am in Canada.  It has taken my daily nausea from 9 out of ten every day to 2 out of ten.  Perhaps you could speak to your doctor about it or a similarly available medication wherever you live.  I sincerely hope your wife is well soon; there's nothing worse than feeling THAT nauseous all the time.

Take care of yourselves and each other!  All the best,

Sam
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Sam:
Thanks, I might get her doctor to prescribe or perhaps agree to me ordering it. Really frustrating, not being able to help her. Docs are baffled, but then all they do is prescribe tests or meds, they do not investigate to find out causes.
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