Please help! DD missing GCSEs due to nausea - Stemetil not working - what else can we do?

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Did post earlier but didn't put GCSEs in the title and the fact she is missing her exams is what makes this urgent. we are at wits end.
started Monday pm, quite suddenly.
nausea - tiredness - lightheaded - some stomach pain but doesn't seem severe
Period arrived Tuesday - it is irregular
GP prescribed Stemetil (2nd appointment of week) but not doing much and she's flat, feeling sick and exhausted this morning.
Missed a week of GCSEs.

we are trying to get liquid into her but even that is an effort and she is taking tiny sips. yesterday she had some ritz crackers, a few bites of ham sandwich (after Stemetil seemed to be working) and half an avocado all day. Nothing so far today.

My worry is that there is no sign of improvement and looking at previous threads there are a lot of examples of unexplained nausea in teens lasting weeks or even months.

what else can/should/shouldn't we do?

good to know, thank you.

plus surprisingly hard to track down ginger sweets.

Sugar & Gluten Free - Simpkins Traditional Travel Sweets Tin 175g (Ginger)

I got these next day delivery for DS - field trip and suddenly worried his travel sickness would be an issue and we were out of previous taken tablets.

There is quiet a variety on there.

The Ginger People The Ginger People Gin Gin Original Chewy Candy Bag
Buy Whole Foods Online Crystallised Ginger, 500 g

There are various ginger teas as well.

I suspect Holland and Barratt would be cheaper but I was ordering late Wednesday night for trip Friday - and couldn't get to city center on Thursday.

Crystallized ginger and ginger and lemon tea- Holland and Barrett.

Sounds like glandular fever if I'm honest.

I am thinking maybe walk in clinic or private GP tomorrow for new anti nausea drug as I'd expect any HCP to want us to give the current one a chance before we discard it. the trouble is time is what we don't have - we have the weekend but come Monday the GCSE timetable marches relentlessly on, with or without her.

If I was in the same position - I'd do this as well to try and get it sorted as soon as possible in the exam period - clearly fewer she misses bettter for her and it does sound like you've covered everything obvious.

Have you tried travel sickness tablets incase it's labarynthitis

If she has completed 25 % they may be able to grade her
It will impact the next year if she needs to retake any
Not her whole life

Dd nausea is related to chronic migraine currently trialling new meds

Joy rides might work

Thanks everyone who has posted. We have good supplies of ginger sweets, teas, crystallised, drinks (ale and shots) and prob other preparations - I didn't half buy some whoo stuff in the pharmacy with the probiotics yesterday lol, 'our trained naturopath' saw the desperation in my eyes.

I feel happier that if MN thinks we've covered the obvious, we probably have. Will stick with the programme - flat coke and dry savoury biscuits with anti nausea drug - for today and see what tomorrow brings.

I do insist on up and dressed - even if she goes back to bed later - for the therapeutic properties I somehow feel these things have and I did take her on a short shuffle this morning until she was too tired to go on (about ten mins). Hard to know where the line is between encouraging and supportive and pushy and swivel-eyed. One starts to feel like the other at times.

Have you tested her for covid?

I came on to suggest Odansetron too. Only thing that helped my Covid nausea.

I'm not in the UK sorry so this might be a ridiculous question but are there not resit arrangements for when a student is unwell? There must have been loads of covid related absences for GCSE and A levels over the past 2 years. Can the school pro i

Sorry pressed send by accident but can the school not provide info about what happens for illness / bereavement absences? Seems awful to have to try to send her in when she is clearly too unwell to sit the papers properly even if you can settle her stomach

I take Buccastem ( has a generic name of prochlorperazine malleate) for migraine sickness and you can buy this over the counter in most chemists. Worth a try?

Last two years' were not assessed on final exams. Limited resits until next summer. If op's dd can attend 25% of each subject they can apply for special consideration.

Thanks LIZS that makes sense that the last 2 years were done differently.

OP not sure if this is helpful but google found me this which provides a bit more detail about the illness procedures (it is geared towards covid specif

specifically but says it is the same procedure for other illnesses

www.tes.com/magazine/analysis/secondary/exams-2022-what-happens-if-pupils-miss-exams-covid-19

Sorry having issues with typing on my phone!

Yes, this is right, thanks Lizs. it's a valid question jamorcream and she may have already hit the 25% threshold. but it's not just about the grade it's about a right of passage and an important wider learning experience about work, responsibility and accountability . . . I'm not an exam freak by any stretch but she's been aiming for these and we just want her to get her crack at them to see what she can do, learn from it and develop as she progresses to A levels. she's marched up the top of the hill and now is just in suspended animation while the world goes on without her. but yeah, that's what happens when you're not well. I know that. it's just frustrating.

There is various apps that you can book video appointments with a GP available on the NHS. You should be able to get a weekend appointment on these. Pushdoctor is one along with Livvi.
Nausea is rubbish, I suffered with it not long ago with random spells of vomiting. Turned out I had a UTI but no urine symptoms.

Yes fair enough. It's different here as our GCSE and A level equivalents are just done by continuous assessment (over 2 years for each, so

Sorry!!
So it factors in end of term exams

And also assignments etc but there are no final exams. So very different as there is no rite of passage element for a major exam session

I really hope you can get some relief for your DD so she can make it in next week

If it helps I suffer horrible travel sickness which then causes my blood.pressure to drop and I can black out. OTC medication from pharmacy called Stugeron 15 is fantastic. I take it for every car journey I am not driving and it works. It's like Kwells but I prefer this one. I'm under a cardiologist and they have taken me off their books now as I am managing my issue myself which seems to be working. Hope she feels better. Nausea is horrible and it's so hard to concentrate when it's happening.