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    • Chetzemoka@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      Heads up to anyone with cardiac issues, especially long QT syndrome or other meds that prolong the QT internal: Ondansetron is so notorious for QT prolongation and cardiac arrhythmia problems that we have to perform an EKG before we’re allowed to give you a second dose on our cardiac unit.

      I have scary anecdotes that bias me against it lol

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, long QT syndrome is estimated around 1/2000 people. Relatively rare. I fully confess that I’m just traumatized by my personal experiences with patients taking the drug lol

    • shibbityshooby@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      My wife has been on 8mg twice daily (oral dissolving and tabular at different times) + domperidone and it’s still not altered a chronic nausea that started at pregnancy. Little ones second birthday in a week, not a day without throwing up within minutes of eating or drinking anything at all - paramedics called it a starvation diet.

      Not that there’s anything you can do, just getting increasingly desperate and throwing this out there in case anyone has anything to relate to this.

      Super glad it’s working for you though - it’s a wonder drug for so many people!