LK182 Welcome. Sorry you are suffering badly. I so agree with others, don't try and rush back. You won't be up to it. Your HR department linked our thread? That is flattering! You've already had great advice. I include my normal spiel that might help, though you may have come across it on the thread. Ignore the bits that don't apply. Most sufferers find that they improve a lot at some point between weeks 14 and 20, or sometimes later. Even those who are unlucky enough to suffer throughout generally are not as ill later on as they are in the first part. A good anti acid can make a surprising difference to the sickness. Kesostix are worth buying online or from a chemists, as while they aren't they best test of dehydration, hospitals take them seriously. When reporting on the vomiting to doctors, remember to emphasize the number of heaves in each vomiting session, as doctors tend to count these as 'vomits' and this can lead to their underestimating the severity of your symptoms. Besides drinking through a straw, here are some drinks that have helped others: full sugar flat coke (if you don't find it too acid), ice lollies, the juice of tinned fruit, Lucozade, apple juice, Ribina, Dr Pepper, soda water, Elderflower water, tonic water, ice cubes, Iron Bru, lemonade, lemon squash, orange squash, orange juice (if not too acid), fizzy orange, 7Up, isotonic drinks, sips of chocolate milkshake (maybe soya), fizzy water, apple juice, Robinson's fruit drinks, Rubicon sparkling mango drink , raspberry Lucozade sport and frozen ice cubes of flat Lucozade sport. Also, pink lemonade and cloudy lemonade. Foods of a sort include tinned fruit, cuppa soup, nibbles of crisps and chips, cheap ice cream, Scotch pancakes, bagels and biscuits, potato smileys, slices of melon and mango. Protein drinks have also been mentioned.
FateHasRedesignedMost I've added your lemonade tips!
Melleebacca So true.
BBonBoard I suppose in the US health insurance seems to mean that expense isn't taken into account so much. I know they have home rehydrating apparatus available, too. But then, if Ondansetron is freely given in New Zealand, that isn't the only factor. A few years ago, there was a sufferer on here in the Netherlands, and she said they are even worse about prescribing meds over there. It is all highly unfair!
Great advice from RockinRobinn and everyone.
Thank you for kind words about my mother, everyone.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.