How long is it safe and effective to use Zofran? Your website says not to use Zofran more often or for a longer period of time than indicated. I can't find anywhere the maximum amount of time it's OK to take this. I take usually 1 or 2 per day when I feel the nausea coming on and have for many months now ... through chemo, surgery, and now with arimadex. I think it's the only thing keeping me from feeling very ill!
How long is it safe to use Zofran?
Question posted by Toni dine on 29 March 2019
Last updated on 16 July 2021 by Burbridgebrapp
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Burbridgebrapp
16 July 2021
I take 4 mg 3 times a day it’s a good preventative nausea medicine for me. I’m a thrower upper. But once I’m in the throws of violently throwing up I need phenergan. But I have severe CPTSD! I’m scared to order a pizza it’s that bad. Nothing works but I got sick from my gallbladder and they prescribed it. Like I said it wasn’t the best I still thrower up but it would buy me time to get home or to a restroom. By the second day I noticed I was extremely calmer. I see drs, therapists & meds. I stay at 70-80% severe anxiety. I noticed I was down to 30-40% calmer. I looked at all my meds and supplements to see what changed. It was the taking zofran daily. I googled it and apparently it has seratonin in it I suppose at a low level because depression meds do not work well for me at all. It has been 40 years of severe anxiety and a nausea Med is what has helped me the most. More than benzodiazepines that don’t even work on me anymore.
DecemberLisa
29 March 2019
Toni dine, I have been taking 8mg to 16mg of Zofran (Ondansetron), daily for over 15 years. I have chronic nausea. I think it is a pretty safe drug. It's not one of my many medications that my doctors have said they would like me to stop. I hope that this helps.
Toni dine
29 March 2019
Awesome! Thanks!
bestpup
30 March 2019
Hi Toni
I too take 4 mg tablets of Zofran three to four times a week.
I have to take one 4mg tablet one hour before I take my 1ml injection of Methotrexate weekly. Because methotrexate's ability to cause nausea especially, I must take it again 8 hours after the injection.
If the nausea and vomiting persists the next day, I have to take two more 4mg tablet's eight hours apart.
Like DecemberLisa, my Rheumatologist has never put a restriction on my Zofran.
Good thing too, because I literally cannot stomach the Methotrexate without the Zofran.
I myself have been taking Zofran for a little more than a year.
Take care
bestpup
Toni dine
30 March 2019
Thank you.
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