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I never had any nausea they gave me a lot of medication for that. For the pain I also received pain medications and I was told to walk, walk and more walk.:) Congratulations and I hope you feel better soon!

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Give it at least a few days! I left the hospital 3 days after surgery and by the time I got home the nausea was gone completely. Pain on the other hand...that was a couple of weeks. Especially first thing in the morning when I had gone all night without pain meds, Today I am one month out and have zero pain. Today and tomorrow will probably be your worst days! I hope you feel better soon!

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If you walk around it does help although that's when I was in pain the worst. My pain lasted a week or so then suddenly it went away. I stop the pain meds four days post op because they didn't do anything but keep me up.

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First congrats!! Sorry you are in pain. I took medication for pain and nausea for a few weeks off and on. It will get better!! Hang in there... Walking really helped me loads! I felt so much better when I got home and was able to rest in my own bed. Hopefully you will improve quickly!

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I felt nauseous for the first 2 days and it gradually improved.

I also felt a lot of pain (I wasn't expecting that). My surgeon said it was normal & I should take the pain medication as I needed it. I did and it helped a lot. By the end of week 1, no longer needed the pain meds.

And somewhere in the middle of week 2, I woke up one morning & just felt pretty normal again.

Hang in there... it will get better!

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Sorry you are in pain. Hang in there it does get better. Follow the advice of everyone and that is to walk and take your pain meds. It has been a week since my surgery and I don't really have any pain just a lack of energy. But walking seems to be the cure to everything. So walk as much as you can and take your pain meds. I promise it will get better.

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if you're still in the hospital, ask for a scope patch. I had them put one on BEFORE surgery, and I never had nausea when I woke up.

The pain tho - I was in pain for about 4-5 days. It gradually got better, but those first few days it was very difficult to get around.

I'm 8 days post op and feeling A LOT better. I cleaned my whole house yesterday (slowly, and with help). Today I went walking around costco and Target with no issues.

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Same here I had surgery yesterday and have pain and nausea. It sucks I don't know what else to do I take the medication they have me for both but they are not working :(

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Walking really does wonders ! I had the worst chest pain from the gas ... I walked 1 1/2 after getting to my room to start working on getting rid of it....was gone by the next day... Still have some belly pain when I drink my shakes to fast !

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Nausea was my issue, the pain meds controlled the pain. Lots of Zofran for nausea!

By day 2 I felt like a new person.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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