Help? 17 Days Postop, Nauseated, Can't Eat Or Take Meds, This Post May Be A Little Gross, Sorry!

[chigga77 21]

I find that when taking meds the brewers fruit bars help. sugar free of course. I hope you feel better soon.

[fljovideb 6]

Everyone was right, it does get better. I ended up with very low potassium and dehydrated. Spent three days in the hospital. The only good news was that I had an upper GI and the radiologist said my sleeve was perfect! Now I am still having trouble getting in enough liquids but eating is a little easier. The nausea still comes and goes. I still wonder if I did the right thing. I think about food more now than I ever did! I dread eating and cough when I eat. I'm taking two Prilosec daily. I'm losing weight but I'm so tired of constantly thinking about eating and drinking. For those of you who can't eat, ask your doctor about marinol. It is a pill form of medical marijuana that is given to chemo pts to increase appetite. It really works!

[jasleeve 440]

they really gave you medical marijuana?

Everyone was right, it does get better. I ended up with very low potassium and dehydrated. Spent three days in the hospital. The only good news was that I had an upper GI and the radiologist said my sleeve was perfect! Now I am still having trouble getting in enough liquids but eating is a little easier. The nausea still comes and goes. I still wonder if I did the right thing. I think about food more now than I ever did! I dread eating and cough when I eat. I'm taking two Prilosec daily. I'm losing weight but I'm so tired of constantly thinking about eating and drinking. For those of you who can't eat, ask your doctor about marinol. It is a pill form of medical marijuana that is given to chemo pts to increase appetite. It really works!

[ProudGrammy 8,322]

hi flj

i guess we can all make a group right now of not feeling good. Since these past 2 months when my surgery began, all was really going fine.

it is just this past week i have not been able to hold things down. Vomitting, dry heaves, all that good stuff..stomach is totally on empty.

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First off i do want to say my dh has been staying home to help me - he has to...

I am finally being a little more successful slowly at a time keeping my chicken broth down, luckily i really do love broth - but i'm drinking so very slowly, sipping away few minutes at a time - so i don't get sick. holding the broth down, but no other liquid yet, but some popsicles. - but i am probably temporly (msp) dehydrated. i'm sure i'll get better soon hopefully but......

we all have our medical problems - meds for high blood pressure, chloresterol (msp) hopefully they will all improve within a month or so, i don't even attempt to try and keep those meds down, i'll still be ok for now

But for my epilepsy i MUST hold down 7 pills in the am and pm. i am having problems with that - i'm scared if i can't keep the pills down i will have a seizure. Thats not good. One time since i couldn't hold my meds down, in a fall i broke my femur, yeach!

Even after taking one set of pills in the am or pm after a few days i will have seizure. Its gonna happen no doubt about it. If i can only hold one set of pills down after a week or so i still will have a seizure. thats without a question.

thats not enough meds and it has happened once before when i was just regular sick. Now finally I so far today have been successful taking one pill at a time over 1/2 -30 minutes at a time. its terrible - i'm so scared that they won't stay down, but i am taking it slower than i was a few days ago - so far so good. its like waiting for an avalance (msp)I to happen, or simply saying -I am me just waiting for a seizure or the other shoe to fall, you know what i mean.

i'm just writing to get stuff my my chest.

no advice needed here, - just wanted to sob into my Soup and kindof cry on someones shoulder. thanx for listening

kathy

[readyforachange 51]

I'm listening. I pray for you and all of us going through this. Be strong!