sleeve surgery sick after surgery
On July 6, 2011 at 5:58 PM Pacific Time, Could_It_Be wrote:
I had the scope patch and two antinausea IV meds and still was very ill the first 30 hours. They think it was the pain pump. I was not allowed home until I was over it though.After being dismissed from the hospital, the only time I have felt nausated or thrown up was when I took my multivitamin on an empty stomach!!! Only stayed down about 30 seconds!!! And boy was that PAINFUL!!!
Oh those dry heaves!!! The day of my surgery, as I was moved into my room and onto that new bed, I had the worst of them. Then I found that even though they were giving me the anti-nausea meds in my IV, every time I hit the button for a shot of pain meds, I'd get the dry heaves again! Small price to pay for the pain meds....it only lasted about 12 hours in the hospital and I was fine when I went home the next day. No stomach ache, except the tenderness with my incisions and a little gas pain.
Hope everything settles down for you!
Hope everything settles down for you!
My anesthesiologist said before surgery that he makes sure to give what he needs to during surgery so that I would be comfortable after surgery and I was. I also went home with a prescription for metoclopromide which I have used a few times. Takes time to get the hang of what the sleeve can handle.
That sounds awful!
That sounds awful!
no, but i told the anesthesiologist i was an easy puker and everything makes me nausteated and to give me everything he had to prevent that. Guess he did because i had about 5 minutes of feeling queasy but a shot of something fixed that.
All you pre-ops, don't be afraid to tell the anesthesiologist if you tend toward nausea. there is lots they can do about it but not if they don't know your issue. I also told them to please be gentle in tubing my throat. Just lets them know you are aware you can get a sore throat if they are beat it up with their tubes and maybe makes them a bit more careful. I also told mine the best place to put the IV in since i have had some before that didn't work. I guess I sound bossy but the doc can't know these things if you don't speak up. Diane
All you pre-ops, don't be afraid to tell the anesthesiologist if you tend toward nausea. there is lots they can do about it but not if they don't know your issue. I also told them to please be gentle in tubing my throat. Just lets them know you are aware you can get a sore throat if they are beat it up with their tubes and maybe makes them a bit more careful. I also told mine the best place to put the IV in since i have had some before that didn't work. I guess I sound bossy but the doc can't know these things if you don't speak up. Diane
yeah i extreame nausea the first 18 hours after surgery, the nausea got better after dry heaving but was still bad, the meds didn't help much, had to stay 2 days in because the first day i couldn't get much fluids in on my own, but was able to walk around which helped some till i layed back down.. just depends on the person i guess..