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@loribmt

Hi @maryb13350 Welcome to Connect. I see you’ve been a member for several months but it’s your first time posting a comment! I hope it’s the first of many. ☺️

Your husband and I had our transplants just a few months apart in 2019. Mine was the end of June. If he’s experiencing GVHD then he had a allogenic transplant with cells from a donor, not his own cells. Unfortunately Graft vs host can be a ‘gift that keeps on giving’ as a side effect from our getting a second chance at life. It can present itself anywhere in the body but can usually be stomped out with a burst of steroids if it’s just beginning. If it’s chronic, then there are other meds that can be prescribed to mitigate the symptoms.

I’m sorry he’s still having nausea. That’s a miserable feeling. Does he still have regular followup appointments with his transplant team? Has he discussed the nausea with them or had any tests to see if there is GVHD in his stomach/digestive tract?

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Thank you for your response. He does see his doctors. He is down to every 6 months with monthly blood draws. He is being treated with Zofran and anxiety meds. I had not thought about GVHD of his digestive tract. We see his doctors in early December and will be sure to bring it up.
His GVHD was skin rash.
I try to push him to eat snd exercise as much as possible.
Thanks for the reply.