Has anyone else had nausea?

WildIris · July 21, 2010

It's not anything protracted, but sometimes (I still haven't figured out a pattern), I'll just suddenly realize, "Oh shit, it's coming up!" and barely make it to the bathroom in time. Then I heave for a couple minutes, and I'm fine again. I haven't felt like it was worth taking anti-nausea medication for, because it doesn't happen often enough to make the side-effects of the medication worth the hassle! The abdominal soreness at my incision sites is the worst, actually. Also, nothing comes up but whatever Fluid I was sipping the few moments prior to the sudden attack. No fever, nada. I've got my post-op appointment tomorrow with the surgeon and I intend to ask about it. I'm mostly just curious to see if anyone else has run up against this.

pistolpete · July 22, 2010

I kinda have the same thing. Especially when I get up in the morning, I feel really bad. I'm guessing it's because I'm so dehydrated waking up!

educationrulz · July 22, 2010

You need to avoid heaving as much as possible since your stomach is freshly stapled and needs to heal without stress. I say take the nausea medicine IF it will keep you from vomiting. I dealt with nausea the first couple of weeks but it didn't make me vomit so I didn't take anything after I left the hospital.

deletedsally · July 22, 2010

I've had problems getting nauseated easily most of my life (car sick in mountains, sea sick, sick on planes, etc...) so it didn't surprise me that I was nauseated off and on for a couple weeks after surgery. I didn't want to take a chance on damaging my staple line by vomiting, so I took Zophran at bedtime for 3 weeks because if I didn't, I would wake up in the early morning hours feeling pretty sick. I occasionally took it during the day if I was feeling queasy. By week 3 I was just taking 1/2 dose at bedtime and none during the day. By week 4, the nausea had passed completely. I didn't really notice any side effects from the medication and it worked wonders. I haven't thrown up one time since surgery. The sublingual tablets are easy to take and they work pretty quickly.