Comfort please!

[Smye 695]

I'm 27 hours out and having the worst nausea in my life. I'm zophran, ginger Water, and a heavy duty nausea-killing supposiyory, but still wishing i could die temporarily until it's gone. anyone else experience this? how long did it last?

[IcanMakeit 1,319]

I really sympathize because I felt exactly as you described. It only lasted a couple of days at that level, and then got much better -- that is until my doc put me on heavy antibiotics for h. pylori. Then it all started up again until I stopped taking them. I hope your experience is closer to the first part of mine and not the last.

[bruni 38]

are you still in the hospital? i had really bad nausea the 2nd night and nurse gave me phenergan (I think) in my IV -- it stopped the nausea and knocked me out... I was better after that.

I hope you get some relief soon!

[AvaFern 3,516]

I had that problem as well. I was dry heaving horribly for 12-24 hours my second day after surgery. I was maxed out on Zofran, Phenergan, and the TransdermScop you stick behind your ear. Finally I asked them to stop giving me the IV narcotics, and within a few hours I was completely better. I requested a minimal use of the IV pain killers after my plastics surgeries and I had no more issues with nausea. The tiny little bit of pain I felt after the sleeve was infinitely preferred over the endless nausea.

If you're still in the hospital, have them either switch the narcotic they are using or give you liquid Advil instead. If you're not in the hospital, stop taking the pain med they gave you. Ideally that helps.

Hope you feel better!

[LSF 264]

The pain meds are what causes nausea. When I was in the hospital getting the lapband 6 years ago the nausea was so bad the car ride home felt like a roller coaster. Once the pain meds were out if my system, so was the nausea. I just had the revision surgery 10 days ago, when I came to- I told them the pain was tolerable and not to give me anything and I was fine.

[Smye 695]

Thank you all so much. Shortly after my original post, my Dr. gave me phenergan suppositories which, along with cutting my hydromorphone in half has helped a TON. I'm from rouglhy a 9 on the nausea scale to hovering between a 2 and a 3. Still no fun but infinitely better.

Now, though, my right arm is swollen and achey. My Dr. said to go to ER immediately if my calf got swollen and achy as it means a likely blood clot, but it's my forearm instead. I called the on-cal doc who said "up to you, either go in now or call me back in the morning." What do you all think?

[Mstdst13 23]

A helpful tip I learned in the hospital, the smell of rubbing alcohol helps nausea. Keep a bottle near where you are sitting and if a wave of nausea hits you just take a whiff. Odd but it truly helped me when the nausea meds didn't get rid of it. Also the pain meds can really cause nausea