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That is actually a huge deal for me because I have Rheumatoid Arthritis. I stopped taking IBU about a month before my surgery to get used to not being able to have it. I have done ok in that respect but I will say that I have been hospitalized twice for medicine getting stuck.

I am not sure what's normal, but the same thing happened to me. It still does and I am almost a month post op.

Your welcome, of course! =)

I was quoting Leena here. I don't know what happened to my quote!

Thank you. You know, I take Zofran during the day and it isn't helping much. I take Phenergan in the evening and it knocks me out. It helps but I don't want to be passed out all day... I started out today feeling a lot better but I am still having problems with the nausea. You know, I am discouraged about this surgery but I am not depressed. I suppose that is a good thing. It really has been a bumpy road. I guess it will look up. At least the pain is gone now... Thank you!

I am so sorry this has happened to you. I guess I have been lucky because my fiance' has done everything. He took me to the hospital for the surgery and stayed the whole day and into the night and to the ER every time I have had to go, visiting me each day. Took care of everything at home, and took care of me. This happened tp me in 2007 after I had the band. I lost my mother to jealous fits once I went from a size 28 to 16. I had complications with my band and had to have it removed jn April and revised to bypass in July. Now I have a partner who is so unhappy with me. He resents me being sick due to complications from The band and now the bypass. He's had the bypass himself. The only other people that know about it are my grandmother, kids and their Dad. I've only told one of my friends I revised for fear if loosing the others. They all know my band came out and think I went back in to have damage repaired which I did ( 2 hernias, adhesions and scar tissue and liver biopsies). I've had 3 hospital stays since removal and don't want to deal with any more fall out from this. It already looks like I'll be moving out and no longer with my partner once Im recovered enough to do so. I absolutely hate being yelled at, cursed at and stuck at home because of complications. He thinks I'm ruining his life because he took a few hours off of work to drop me off at the hospital- and that I cant go out anywhere. And that he's "picking up the slack". Meanwhile I have a home nurse and my teenagers have been picking up things at the pharmacy and local convience store, their Dad even brought down groceries. And I've started ordering things like Protein shakes on amazon (still on liquids). I hate asking him to do anything as I get comments like he's not my servant. I was so sick post op that my kids were helping me shower, helping me up the stairs and in and out of the chair I've been sleeping on. They've been cleaning the house daily and have taken turns sleeping on the couch so they could help me out of the chair in the middle if the night so i could go to the bathroom.. Week 3 I was finally able to do those things on my own. At one point their father came down to take care of me because they told them how I was being treated. He took me to the hospital for my first snd second stay and a few appointments. It does really hurt to loose people as a result of them not being able to handle your surgery. But it is for the best- what's worse is being stuck there with them. Things haven't been very easy for me since my surgery, but I think he knows I would do the same for him. You know, maybe he isn't the one for you. I will be marrying my fiance' in sickness and in health next year. He already knows I come with sickness. I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and Epilepsy along with all of the issues the surgery has caused me. I am so sorry, and I hope things turn up for you.

On the website at the very top where it says hell (your name). You right click on it and there is a menu. You also have to make sure in your profile that you allow your weight to be seen.

Oh no. I have been back in the hospital twice through the ER. When I pinch my skin it goes right back down..... You have a point about the BP, though. It was pretty low in the hospital. Something is going to have to change with that. I have to take some high BP med for migraines and that may now be issue. Thanks for the advice.

That's how I was too, but never at the incisions. Very minimal at the other areas.

Well with the nausea I am having a real hard time getting in the fluids. I try, but it is not nearly as much as I need.

I imagine it is because of my nausea and inability to take in much fluids. I guess the low amount of calories I am consuming as well. Has anyone else had this issue? I seriously think I am falling to pieces and really regret the surgery.

Oh, well I wasn't telling you not to listen to your surgeon, I was just telling you what my guidelines were....

I think it took me about a week too but the more you move around the quicker it dissipates. I do agree it's horrible....

Wow. I will not be able to eat rice or noodles until 6-9 months post op.

I am more than three weeks out and I will say that I have had a rough time altogether. My surgery was on July 16th and I was the least bit nervous going in until the very last second when my fiance was kissing me goodbye as they were wheeling me out. In that second I worried it would be the last time I ever saw him. I guess right after that I went under. His face was the first one I saw. I have no idea how long I was in recovery and I do not recall being in the recovery room or seeing any nurses or doctors or anyone. I could not breathe and it felt like I was having a heart attack. I couldn't talk at all and I was so afraid. I was motioning to the nurse but she could not understand me. My fiance could. He was reading my lips and he told them I couldn't breathe and was having chest pains. All of a sudden a rush of people came in the room, they unhooked the top of my gown and started hooking me up to everything and a respiratory guy came in and tried to draw blood from my left wrist and was unsuccessful so he went to the right. It was a very rough hospital stay. I finally went home and my pain was tremendous. At ten days something got stuck in my throat and I vomited all day long and I was admitted for three days. Five days later some of my medicine got stuck in my throat or chest and once again I was vomiting all day and admitted to the hospital for four days. At that point, when I was discharged, I was on day 20 s/p my surgery. Ten days spent in the hospital and ten days at home. Finally my pain is almost gone, I have a twinge here and there but that's about it. I saw my surgeon yesterday and I just broke down. I told him if I could turn back the clock I would never have the surgery. My Hiatal Hernia surgery was necessary, but the RNY was not. I am still on liquids at this point..but hardly in. Everything makes me nauseous and has since my second discharge from the hospital. I am not getting in the fluids or Protein that I should. At this point he is most concerned with me getting the fluids in. I will see him again next Thursday and I asked him about when I could go to mushy. In the hospital he told me ten days, which would be next Thursday. He looked at me and told me to come see him. So that means don't eat, just come see me and we will see. I feel like I am at my wits end and I wish I could undo my surgery, but I know I can't. He told me I am not the first patient to feel this way and later on down the line I will feel different. Right now I am just not so sure about that. My weight loss is pretty good. I have gained 20 lbs in Fluid between all three hospital stays and I have lost it and then some. I went in at 239 and left at 251. I dropped that fluid weight in five days I guess. I don't remember how long it took me to lose the next 5 of fluid out of the hospital, but this last time I got out of the hospital on Tuesday. I went in at 227 and came out 232. Today, 3 days later I am at 226. The weight going in (239) to now (226) shows a 13 lb difference in over 3 weeks, but I also lost the 20 lbs of fluid. At this point I hardly care about the weight loss, I just want to be well. I am not able to go back on my RA meds yet due to the complications and I worry every day that my Epilepsy meds are going to get stuck in my throat again landing me back in the hospital. Ugh. Pik out.

Great news!!!

I am having the same problem. Plain Water makes me nauseous and so does water with Crystal Lite. I am not getting in a fraction of the fluids I should be getting in. My Protein shakes that were always fine make me feel the same way. At this point, my surgeon doesn't seem to be worried about my protein, but my fluids. He wantsme to try sugar free gatorade and anything else that I can to get the fluids in.

Yesterday was week 3 for me and I gained weight, but that was due to all of the Fluid they put in me in the hospital. I have lost all but a pound of it so far. At this point I am having issues with fluids, to include the Protein, so I am sure I will meet a plateau here soon.

I have had nausea ever since my surgery on 7/16... I have been hospitalized 2x after my surgery and they really didn't do much about it but give me zofran. At home I take phenergan in the evenings.

Maybe with the weight loss, you are "holding your head up higher!"

I was told not to eat it until 6-9 months post surgery. (No pasta, rice,etc)

Are you not taking a sublingual B12?

I think you are doing great and the fact that you are also exercising is even better. Maybe this way you won't have all of that extra skin.

I will be thinking positive thoughts and prayers for you! I really wish they would have done an endoscopy on me when I was in the hospital....

I am out of the hospital now, for the third time and I have had nausea the whole time ever since after my surgery. I am 3 weeks s/p surgery today. I have even been wearing the little Patches you get by prescription for motion sickness. I hate to have to take phenergan throughout the day because it knocks me out. I see my surgeon for hospital follow up of the second stay tomorrow and I am going to let him know about it. Has anyone else had this problem?