Sound miserable.

For nausea, here are some home remedies I've found very useful:

-Ginger tea (fresh grated ginger steeped in hot water for 15 minutes then strained or ginger teabags steeped for 3-5 minutes).
-Ginger ale (real ginger ale; I like Reeds Extra Ginger Ginger Ale; Canada Dry doesn't seem to have enough real ginger in it to make a difference).
-Candied ginger (crystalized or regular; you can find them at Trader Joe's or World Market and in the baking aisle of most grocery stores).
-Ginger candies (again Trader Joe's and World Market and many Asian markets).

Using ginger (especially candies and candied ginger) preemptively also helps with motion sickness as well.

Lemon sometimes helps with nausea as well. Some pregnant women find that sucking on lemons or drinking real lemonaid helps (I know that sounds counterproductive with the acid, but often your stomach needs more acid, not less, to settle it down).

If I may be so bold as to ask, would you consider changing your avatar/picture? It's great and a lot of fun, but the motion and colors is starting the wreak havoc on my head (I have the beginnings of a migraine as well and am sipping ginger tea to keep my stomach calm as I type). Right now I have a post-it note over the screen where your avatar is, which is helping, but I suspect others may experience the same effect. Just a small request...it might help all of us. Keep the name, but perhaps a little less motion and color change.

Good luck and I hope some of the suggestions help...at least for your next headache.
Ruth

Thanks for the fast response. Someone sent me a message about my avatar and I have since changed it. I did not realize the affects it could have on other people when I put it up. I hope my new one is alright. No flashing :)

I also heard that peppermint tea is good for the stomach, as I heard from someone not from DS.

Thanks again.

Punkee,
Thanks! Love the new avatar! I forgot about the peppermint tea. You can also try the peppermint Altoids; they're stong but work very well. Peppermint is also good for any intestinal spasms as it relaxes the gastric and intestinal track (thus not recommened if you have GERD or other reflux issues).

Thanks again for the new avatar!
Ruth

no problem :)

I too am a fan of ginger ale for settling stomach. I usually drink it in the evening after my dinner and finds it does settle my stomach quite nicely.

I have never thought about picking up Reeds extra ginger, ginger ale but have certainly tried it. I'm glad you mentioned it. Next time that my stomach is giving me grief I am going to pick up a bottle and see if it is more effective than my usual brand. I bet it will be.

I have also recently picked up the bee pollen capsules recommended by Helen on the ADPKD group. She has shared that bee pollen capsules have helped in eliminating her migraines.

My thoughts are that bee pollen is a good nutritional supplement and is certainly worth a try. I know that when supplementing with a natural product it usually takes up to 3 months to see benefit. So I will certainly post again if,"God willing", I do get some help with migraine from the inclusion of bee pollen in my diet.

"Reeds Extra Ginger Ginger Ale"
Never heard of this. Does it come in cans? Do you get it at the grocery store or a specialty store?

I used to work at a health food store here in Canada that sold it. It was sold by the bottle. It is certainly extra,extra ginger.

Punkee, you could talk to your doctor for something which works WELL for the nausea. I, personally, have found both Peppermint and Ginger to not only be not of much help to me, but both of them KILLED my stomach in large quanties (more than you would use as an seasoning.)

Compazine is an inexpensive yet VERY effective nausea medication. Zofran is expensive, but was developed for cancer patients and works WELL for those of us with hard to treat Migraine Caused Nausea. I have days when I have to take both Zofran and Compazine, the nausea gets to bad. I, personally, found noting "natural" which works for the pain OR the nausea.

Your mileage may vary.

Reeds Extra Ginger Ginger Ale comes in bottles, usually in four packs or individually depending on the store (if it comes in both, get one from the fridge to drink now and put it in the four pack and put the one from the four pack in the back of the fridge!). It is very gingery and very, very good! Just try not to go too overboard on the ginger in one sitting; your innards may rebel.

On the medication front, I find Zofran gives me a horrible headache (it's the number one side effect under their CNS effects) and most of the other meds just don't do much at all for any nausea I get. At one point I was in the ER throwing up so much they tried all of the anti-nausea medications on the market in a 12 hour period and nothing worked--now that was fun!

My tummy is just ornery and like natural remedies versus meds. My stomach also likes stewed tomatoes when it's unsettled; it seems to want a bit of extra acid instead of all these acid reducers when it's troubled. Perhaps there's some sentimental element at work. My mom used to make us stewed tomatoes when we had upset tummies as kids and it worked everytime.