I'm home

So i had my gastric Bypass on monday at 740 am, i got home yesterday after a few very minor ccomplications.... but i feel so so crappy :(

I was in so much pain and so out of it that i dont really remember monday. Tuesday i had tons of nausea and heaving followed by good periods but white as a ghost and so dizzy! Wednesday things started to look up and they wanted to send me home but i wasnt ready. i had three bowel movements that were pure blood, scared the crap outta me!! He tells me that i had a bleed intraoperatively that he had to go back and stop so he expects that i would have some bloody BM's!! Now i know where all the dizziness and weakness and ghostly color have come from. My hemoglobin dropped 45 points and as of yesterday dropped another 4 but definately less dizzy and feeling better that way. The drive home yesteday was torteurous, little painful and of course super nauseated by the time i got home. Felt ok for a bit then had another break down last night.... felt so poopy :(  I found a way to arrange all my pillows so that i can sleep in an upright position and had a decent sleep. Today i have had a popsicle and some pudding and am feeling pretty good!!

I am finding it do tough to get food/fluids into me..... how did you guys do it??  i just want to get past this constant nausea.... how long till you started to feel almost normal?? i know i am only 4 days out  and probably expecting too much but i just want to feel kind of normal so i can get this show on the road.

oh and i had to quit taking my pain meds cuz  the flavor had me gagging. No way can i take it.,.. id rather suffer than gag anymore from it!

Hang in there sweetie, it should get better.  I know it doesn't feel like that now but from all I have read getting over this first week is the hardest part and then you start to feel better. 

Keep us posted on your progress and I will be thinking of you and hoping you begin to feel better soon.

Sheila

Kris,
My heart goes out to you. Trust me the nausea and gagging will stop. I was in the hospital 5 days with my sleeve cause I had such bad nausea and phantom vomiting. My doctors could hear me as soon as they got off the elevator they didn't even have to come onto the ward to know it was me.
I was prescribed liquid codeine and it help so much with the pain and the constant diarrhea which comes from liquid in and liquid out.
It's very hard to get your fluids in over the first 2 weeks but please try cause dehydration sets in very easily and you'll end up back in emerg. The first 2 weeks I didn't eat much other than flavored water that seemed to go down better and Popsicles. Now at 6 months out I still have issues with getting all my fluids but hot drinks work better  than cold, I know weird it went from one extreme to the other.
Feel better hun, rest, sip and walk, it'll help even though it doesn't feel like it now. I wish you all the best.

Kee.

Today is a much better day!! Aside from having to poop (sorry tmi) all the time and some abdominal disccomfort i feel pretty darn good. Nothing tastes good yet but im sure that will come in time. i tried adding protien powder to my cream of wheat this morning..... eew!! i tried adding some to my juice..... eew!!! Its not as unflavoured as they say it is!! Need to find ways to hide it in the food!