I suffered pre-sleeve with motion sickness (planes, trains, buses, boats) anything that moves, i am fine in a car as long as i am driving. I am thinking of booking a trip which includes flying but not sure how my stomach will be after being sleeved.

Has anyone else suffered with this and has it got better or worse after being sleeved???

Before surgery I did ok with planes trains and automobiles. Boats are not bad, but not great. Rollercoasters have always been a nightmare.

After surgery... Rocking in my arm chair makes me dizzy. Test the waters first. I actually did test the waters in a pool. It didn't go well.

I find I get dizzier and nauseous more often post sleeve than pre sleeve. Weird!

I'm a week out and have dizziness and nausea consistently when I do things for more than an hour. Example going to walmart.

I've always suffered from motion sickness...boats are the worst, but anything will do it. I was the kid no one wanted to sit with on the school bus because you never knew when I might hurl. Motion sickness isn't about our stomachs (or sleeves ). It's basically caused when your inner ear and your eyes disagree with what motion is perceived. That's why you don't get sick when you drive (your eyes and vestibular function both sense that you are moving), but you do get sick reading in the back seat where your body says you are moving, but your eyes say you are sitting still. IMAX movies are the opposite...Your eyes say you're moving but your body is standing still. Boy, they are almost worse than anything for me.

I would assume you will still get motion sick, but there's no reason to think it should get worse in the long term. Short term however, we may be closer to our "nausea trigger" because of our sleeve's sensitivities, so your symptoms may get temporarily worse. (Like spinning in a chair when you're hung over or have the flu as compared to not)

There are, of course, other reasons for postop dizziness and nausea, so my "theory" only applies to symptoms caused by motion sickness.

Edited July 24, 201412 yr by Kindle

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