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Hello,
my baby boy (Lancelot, 6yo male) was diagnosed with Large Cell Intestinal Lymphoma ~8 months ago. He finished CHOP 3 weeks ago, after a somewhat turbulent rollercoaster with chemo side effects, but an overall great quality of life.
During his chemo, he's never been completely puke-free. Actually, one of the side effects he experienced was, according to his oncologist, Vincristine-induced paralytic ileus. This caused a sudden drop in his appetite and vomit, which got better (but was not perfectly solved) when we removed Vincristine from his chemo. Generally, his oncologist seems to think that he has both IBD and lymphoma, given that there's not been any sign that the lymphoma is spreading/getting worse, but he still regurgitates from time to time.
(Note: I'm using puke/regurgitate interchangeably, but he always empties his stomach within 1-2 minutes from eating in a tubular form, so it should be the first.)
Anyway, fast forward to now: he's been vomiting again and I'm worried.
The timeline:
- He regurgitated twice the week post last chemo after a 3-weeks vomit-free period.
- A week ago (2 weeks post chemo) we ran out of the food he usually eats, and I tried giving him beef instead (which he hadn't had in a long while). Immediately after, he projectile vomited brownish liquid. This was the first time I've ever seen him projectile vomiting liquid. Usually he just empties his stomach in a tubular form, typical of regurgitation.
- After the projectile vomit, I started giving him Cerenia. After that, once a day, he puked a tiny bit of brown liquid.
- I added Slippery Elm Bark thinking his stomach might be irritated.
- Yesterday, I started feeding him a bland diet of just boiled chicken, hoping that his stomach would be ok with a break. Yesterday he didn't puke, then this morning he got nauseous again and "threw up" a single piece of chicken after retching. It didn't even have liquid around it.
Now I'm worried sick because Cerenia doesn't seem to be helping much. One time, the oncologist said that Cerenia doesn't usually help stopping vomit due to cancer, so that's where my brain is going now. I'd love to think it's just an IBD flare up, but it's hard to find info on how those look like and whether Cerenia should completely stop the vomit then.
We have an appointment tomorrow for an emergency recheck with both an internal medicine doctor and his oncologist, so we'll get some answers hopefully. But if anyone has thought I'd appreciate them. It feels so scary and lonely to see a fur baby go through this.
(Oh, other fun fact: when he was on his previous food I had to follow him around to get him to eat because he was so nauseous and would only eat a bit at a time. Once I switched him to boiled chicken, it's like his nausea disappeared overnight. He keeps trying to open up whatever container I put it in and asking for more and more.)
my baby boy (Lancelot, 6yo male) was diagnosed with Large Cell Intestinal Lymphoma ~8 months ago. He finished CHOP 3 weeks ago, after a somewhat turbulent rollercoaster with chemo side effects, but an overall great quality of life.
During his chemo, he's never been completely puke-free. Actually, one of the side effects he experienced was, according to his oncologist, Vincristine-induced paralytic ileus. This caused a sudden drop in his appetite and vomit, which got better (but was not perfectly solved) when we removed Vincristine from his chemo. Generally, his oncologist seems to think that he has both IBD and lymphoma, given that there's not been any sign that the lymphoma is spreading/getting worse, but he still regurgitates from time to time.
(Note: I'm using puke/regurgitate interchangeably, but he always empties his stomach within 1-2 minutes from eating in a tubular form, so it should be the first.)
Anyway, fast forward to now: he's been vomiting again and I'm worried.
The timeline:
- He regurgitated twice the week post last chemo after a 3-weeks vomit-free period.
- A week ago (2 weeks post chemo) we ran out of the food he usually eats, and I tried giving him beef instead (which he hadn't had in a long while). Immediately after, he projectile vomited brownish liquid. This was the first time I've ever seen him projectile vomiting liquid. Usually he just empties his stomach in a tubular form, typical of regurgitation.
- After the projectile vomit, I started giving him Cerenia. After that, once a day, he puked a tiny bit of brown liquid.
- I added Slippery Elm Bark thinking his stomach might be irritated.
- Yesterday, I started feeding him a bland diet of just boiled chicken, hoping that his stomach would be ok with a break. Yesterday he didn't puke, then this morning he got nauseous again and "threw up" a single piece of chicken after retching. It didn't even have liquid around it.
Now I'm worried sick because Cerenia doesn't seem to be helping much. One time, the oncologist said that Cerenia doesn't usually help stopping vomit due to cancer, so that's where my brain is going now. I'd love to think it's just an IBD flare up, but it's hard to find info on how those look like and whether Cerenia should completely stop the vomit then.
We have an appointment tomorrow for an emergency recheck with both an internal medicine doctor and his oncologist, so we'll get some answers hopefully. But if anyone has thought I'd appreciate them. It feels so scary and lonely to see a fur baby go through this.
(Oh, other fun fact: when he was on his previous food I had to follow him around to get him to eat because he was so nauseous and would only eat a bit at a time. Once I switched him to boiled chicken, it's like his nausea disappeared overnight. He keeps trying to open up whatever container I put it in and asking for more and more.)