Chetzemoka

Yep, that's the usual recommended dose - 200mg like an hour before bedtime

Yeah, medically cyclic vomiting syndrome is usually more associated with cannabis abuse disorder, so you're probably not going to get far trying to get that diagnosis specifically. But that doesn't mean these same treatment regimens won't help. Think of it as physical therapy for the gut and nervous system.

Oh man, you are really challenging my senior citizen brain here. I think I know how to bold things haha

I like Nootropics Depot as a source company. They sell it for $20 for a 30 count bottle of 200mg capsules.

It's really safe even in absolutely large doses. (There are studies performed using doses in the multiple GRAM range.) I highly recommend trying it. Personally I take 400mg/night, which is twice the dosage you'll see advertised. I only mention because I think the standard advertised range is probably too low for people like me.

Coenzyme Q10

Energy, mitochondrial support, antioxidant

Personally, I think everyone should be taking this. Extremely safe, improves cardiac outcomes, some evidence that it can reverse damage in chronic kidney disease. Most people won't feel different, but I take high dose CoQ10 for mitochondrial dysfunction, and I can tell you it definitely has a huge impact. Love this stuff.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8092430/

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3921/8/2/44#:~:text=Chronic%20Kidney%20Disease%20(CKD),-The%20role%20of&text=There%20is%20evidence%20that%20CoQ10,dialysis%20in%20patients%20with%20CKD.

Apigenin (herbal supplement)

Insomnia, anxiety

Derived from chamomile flowers (and other plant sources), I've found this to be more successful in treating my chronic insomnia than any of the pharmaceutical options. (And believe me, I've tried them all.)

I am so sorry that she's dealing with this. I've heard of successful treatment of intractable nausea using biofeedback therapy. The idea being that the body gets stuck in a negative feedback loop and trying to reverse that back to previous functioning.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314851129_Biofeedback_and_visualization_to_control_nausea_and_vomiting

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21154016/#:~:text=Treatment%20outcome%20suggests%20that%20vomiting,bodily%20control%20and%20self%2Defficacy.

I hope this gets better for her.

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

Low Dose Naltrexone is amazing for all kinds of chronic pain and inflammation.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3962576/

I dunno, cats are so individual. One of mine loves this ball-in-circle toy so much, she'll play with it for hours on and off. My other one wants ME to play, no matter what toy it is.

Here's the ball-in-circle toy:

https://www.chewy.com/dp/193219?utm_source=app-share&utm_campaign=193219

I think you have to just try different things and see what they like most. Maybe try a catnip stuffed toy?

I also find that they are just like humans and the things they like most are whatever is new. So I buy them like one new toy a couple times a year. It's almost Christmas; I'll get them a new toy as a gift haha

Sorry, I didn't say that clearly. What I mean is you have to remember to use the damn HSA card when you go to buy Tylenol instead of your normal payment method. This is...where I tend to fail lol

Christ how are people this ignorant? The ICIJ has several hundred people working for it.

https://www.icij.org/about/

And it wasn't a foreign government. Caruana Galizia was MALTESE. She was investigating her own government.