I am 4 days post op and having a pretty rough time of it. Not hungry but just a lot of nausea and some dry heaves the 1st 2 days but none since. I am still having lots of abdominal and gas pains. But my real problem is trying to get down any medications. I am on clear liquids and following that religiously. The liquid lortab is terrible tasting and I start heaving when taking small amounts with sips of water. I ended up splitting a Zofran (for nausea) in half and its a really small pill and then taking a small spoon of jelly and mixing it and it went down. Its not SF jelly but I'm not getting in much calories anyway. I may try the same thing tonight with pain pill tablets to get them down. Anyone having similar problems. I am feeling like I made a huge mistake now having the surgery. HELP

Teanne

I am 4 days post op and having a pretty rough time of it. Not hungry but just a lot of nausea and some dry heaves the 1st 2 days but none since. I am still having lots of abdominal and gas pains. But my real problem is trying to get down any medications. I am on clear liquids and following that religiously. The liquid lortab is terrible tasting and I start heaving when taking small amounts with sips of water. I ended up splitting a Zofran (for nausea) in half and its a really small pill and then taking a small spoon of jelly and mixing it and it went down. Its not SF jelly but I'm not getting in much calories anyway. I may try the same thing tonight with pain pill tablets to get them down. Anyone having similar problems. I am feeling like I made a huge mistake now having the surgery. HELP

Teanne

Teanne,

I'm sorry to hear that you are having such problems. That liquid lortab is VILE! I don't know how much pain you are in, but I switched to liquid tylenol postop day 2 and it worked just fine and it tastes way better than the lortab. You should call your surgeon and tell him about the nausea. Mine gave me phenergan suppositories. Thankfully I didn't need them, but at least you don't have to try to swallow them and it sounds like you need something. Hope you get to feeling better.

Teanne, I would definitely do what was suggested and call your doctor to get some suppositories for the nausea. You don't want to heave like that with the new band. The more you heave, the more you are going to irritate your new pouch and the swelling won't go down which is probably what is causing your nausea in the first place. Don't worry, I know it's rough now but in a few days it will seem like a distant memory.