Trouble in the past waking and with extreme nausea...

I've had a lot of problems with anesthesia in the past. When I had my first knee surgery in the mid 80's I had a horrible time waking up, when I did wake up I was very very sick and vomitting, even though I had followed the directions exactly and hadn't eaten after the time they had stated. When I had my breast reduction surgery in 2001, again, I had a horrible time waking up, they forced me into a chair hoping that it would make it easier for me to wake up. When I finally did wake up I was very very nauseous, phenergen (spelling?) didn't help at all (I'm not sure what the other injection was, I had a total of 3 injections to help with the nausea). Eventually I felt like I needed to vomit, and when I did it was like I was throwing up air, nothing at all came up but I felt a lot better. (I apologize for the descriptions here) Anyway, I'm wondering if there's something I can do to help make anesthesia more tolerable? Or should I just hope that the anesthesiologist understands that when I say I get very sick and have a difficult time waking up from surgery that it's not just a mild thing. Thanks for any help you can share on this :)

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