Nausea

[Caliblonde 25]

So the past three days have been not much fun for me. I'm a little over three weeks out and now I'm finding that I have nausea. It pretty much lasts all day long and gets worse when I eat or drink. I've gone back to eating the things I know sit well, but even those foods are making me feel ill (i.e. cottage cheese, string cheese). I also had my first experience with vomiting after I tried a one a day Gummy Vitamin. I'm planning to call my surgeon's office tomorrow to see if they can give me a prescription for an anti-nausea medicine. I know lots of people experience nausea with vsg, if you have suggestions I'm open to them!

[1-4-Many 2]

The prescription nausea meds really played with my vision. My guy said to treat it like morning sickness. I was told to eat 2 saltine crackers before I got up. Then by choice I took my favorite antihistamine through the day and that seems to get on top of it. About a week later I was able to back off the antihistamines. If they do nothing else, they help you get you fluids in by drying your mouth, but they really did help me with the upset stomach too.

Any Vitamin made me sick while I was in my phase. Just yesterday I tried a wafer type Calcium and it made me sick. Most of my troubles are around the supplements.

The only food thing that helped me was to sip hot Decaf tea with a teaspoon of honey in it. That tended to settle me well. When I would start sipping my stomach would go into super grumble mode, but at the end of the cup it would be calming down.

It's not fun. But my phase only lasted about 2 weeks then it was pretty much gone just as it came.

Good luck.

[Caliblonde 25]

I was thinking that crackers of some type would be helpful. Thanks so much for the suggestions.

[swizzly 901]

I find sometimes the Vitamins make me a little sick, too. If you are having severe nausea, lay off the vitamins for a few days until you are feeling better. Most important is getting enough Water in, then Protein, then supplements -- so it's fine to not have them for a bit until your stomach can calm down a bit. Good luck!

[Caliblonde 25]

Thanks Dee,

I tried laying off the Vitamins for a couple of days and then talked to the nurse practitioner. She told me to try switching to a different Vitamin. I tried the new Vitamin and that caused vomiting. I called the surgeons office this morning. The nurse is going to call in a prescription anti-nausea medicine for me. We'll see how that goes.

It's better when I drink cold liquids and when I don't try to push the food too much. I unfortunately can't do Protein Shakes at the moment, just the smell makes me gag.

[re7777 1]

I find that the Multivitamins, whether they are chewable or swallowable, make me queasy unless there is food in my stomach. Sometimes the Calcium does that to me too. Never had that problem before the sleeve. Now I will just take them right before or right after I eat. I can swallow mine, so I take them w/ a very tiny bit of Water so I don't fill up before I eat.

Also, I was a little queasy yesterday. I didn't want to drink. If anything, I wanted pretzels or saltines. Instead, I made myself drink, taking little sips over a period of 15-20 minutes, and felt much better. It's probably not what you had, but I think mine was a little dehydration.

good luck!

[Caliblonde 25]

Thank you! I'm hoping that the prescription will help. I had 3 crackers last night and that seemed to settle things down enough for me to sleep.< /p>

[Bevgonnadothis 0]

So the past three days have been not much fun for me. I'm a little over three weeks out and now I'm finding that I have nausea. It pretty much lasts all day long and gets worse when I eat or drink. I've gone back to eating the things I know sit well, but even those foods are making me feel ill (i.e. cottage cheese, string cheese). I also had my first experience with vomiting after I tried a one a day Gummy Vitamin. I'm planning to call my surgeon's office tomorrow to see if they can give me a prescription for an anti-nausea medicine. I know lots of people experience nausea with vsg, if you have suggestions I'm open to them!

I had a bad bout with nausea while in the hospital, I could not keep anything down. My doctor finally came by and changed my med from phenygrin to decutrim (ck spelling (a steroid). I am still feeling a little quesy but I just take a pepcid and it helps settle my stomach.