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I never had any nausea they gave me a lot of medication for that. For the pain I also received pain medications and I was told to walk, walk and more walk.:) Congratulations and I hope you feel better soon!

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Give it at least a few days! I left the hospital 3 days after surgery and by the time I got home the nausea was gone completely. Pain on the other hand...that was a couple of weeks. Especially first thing in the morning when I had gone all night without pain meds, Today I am one month out and have zero pain. Today and tomorrow will probably be your worst days! I hope you feel better soon!

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If you walk around it does help although that's when I was in pain the worst. My pain lasted a week or so then suddenly it went away. I stop the pain meds four days post op because they didn't do anything but keep me up.

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First congrats!! Sorry you are in pain. I took medication for pain and nausea for a few weeks off and on. It will get better!! Hang in there... Walking really helped me loads! I felt so much better when I got home and was able to rest in my own bed. Hopefully you will improve quickly!

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I felt nauseous for the first 2 days and it gradually improved.

I also felt a lot of pain (I wasn't expecting that). My surgeon said it was normal & I should take the pain medication as I needed it. I did and it helped a lot. By the end of week 1, no longer needed the pain meds.

And somewhere in the middle of week 2, I woke up one morning & just felt pretty normal again.

Hang in there... it will get better!

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Sorry you are in pain. Hang in there it does get better. Follow the advice of everyone and that is to walk and take your pain meds. It has been a week since my surgery and I don't really have any pain just a lack of energy. But walking seems to be the cure to everything. So walk as much as you can and take your pain meds. I promise it will get better.

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if you're still in the hospital, ask for a scope patch. I had them put one on BEFORE surgery, and I never had nausea when I woke up.

The pain tho - I was in pain for about 4-5 days. It gradually got better, but those first few days it was very difficult to get around.

I'm 8 days post op and feeling A LOT better. I cleaned my whole house yesterday (slowly, and with help). Today I went walking around costco and Target with no issues.

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Same here I had surgery yesterday and have pain and nausea. It sucks I don't know what else to do I take the medication they have me for both but they are not working :(

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Walking really does wonders ! I had the worst chest pain from the gas ... I walked 1 1/2 after getting to my room to start working on getting rid of it....was gone by the next day... Still have some belly pain when I drink my shakes to fast !

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Nausea was my issue, the pain meds controlled the pain. Lots of Zofran for nausea!

By day 2 I felt like a new person.

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