Important Question For Your Anatheisologist

[tgb 10]

Please talk with your anatheisologist about nauseous. They don't always put the medicine in for nauseous.

I was banded yesterday (3-15) and was worried about throwing up. I read these posts about how folks spent the day throwing up, one person even said "I would rather be fat"; wow you know that had to be bad.

My partner said she got sick her first time because they didn't put the med in, but was OK the 2nd when they did.

I wasn't sick at all and I asked the anatheisologist for the medicine.

[xavier 153]

I did ok but they gave me a prescription of quick dissolve (under your tongue) Ondansetron (Zofran) in case I got nauseous because throwing up is not good after this procedure!

[Jess55 97]

I didn't have to ask. When I was having my IV put in and given heparin and stuff the nurse put a scopolamine patch behind my ear. I never had one issue with nausea. (Besides day 4 after I took it off, I went out shopping and after a couple hours I started getting a little queasy). The only thing about the patch is that it can mess with your vision. I had been trying to read and my eyes weren't able to focus or something and then I found out the patch has that as a side effect, I had forgot I even had it on, once I took it off all was well with my vision.