Help dealing with nausea/sick stomach due to medication?

MaineLonghorn
Tue, 09 Sep 2014 02:09:20 +0000

Not quite the same, but when my middle son was 16, he got so sick that he could keep NOTHING down. NOTHING. We were literally dripping water from an eye dropper into his mouth. He was overweight to start, but lost 20 pounds like that. We kept calling the doctor and couldn’t seem to get anybody to understand that this was SERIOUS. A specialist finally thought to ask, “Are you taking any meds?” and he said, “Doyxcycline.” The specialist about had a cow, because he knew that doxycycline can cause nausea like my son got. He stopped the med and was fine within a couple of days. I’ve seen a lot of bad medical care with my older son’s mental illness, but this took the cake.