Question:
nausea

I am 2 weeks post op rny and experiencing nausea 24 hrs a day. This began even before I started my soft food diet. Has anyone experienced this before? I'm getting desperate.    — glasshouse (posted on July 23, 2008)

July 23, 2008
Hi, Breanna. I was nauseous for just slightly over two weeks post-op. I asked for and got a prescription to combat nausea, filled it, and, of course, the nausea stopped. Let's hope the same happens for you.
   — jujuprof

July 23, 2008
I bought sugar free ginger ale and stirred the fizz out and let it go flat and sipped on that for months. Didn't hurt me, I still lost 200 lbs but sure helped with nausea.
   — diamond0801

July 23, 2008
Just ask your doc for a perscription. The drugs you received during surgery are still in your system and they along with the air in your gut are still causing the nausea. Also if you had RNY, you have a lot of stitches that are still healing that are adding to it.
   — William (Bill) wmil

July 23, 2008
I feel for you! I'm almost 5 years out and in the begining i got nausious for everything. The smell of food or seeing the dirty plates in the sink. What really helped me was rubbing alcohol. It was with me everywhere (swabs in my purse) I found that once i inhaled it a few times,i felt better. Everyone is different, but it doesnt hurt to try. Good Luck!
   — Maria G.

July 24, 2008
I was sick from the word go!! I stayed this way for months1 Couldnt eat lost weight fast but also lost protein and iron..Keep up ur protein even if you cant keep anything else down...My hair fell out and everything. (Then 4 months out I really got sick..but I was pregnant and didnt know it...lol) good luck.
   — ches97

July 24, 2008
Me too! It seems to just go with the surgery. I finally got compazine tabs...the other one...Zofran I think works faster but I could not tolerate the taste of it melting in my mouth. It is expensive and I would just throw it up. One big help for me was my CPAP machine. I would lie down, put the mask on and inhale the air...fall asleep and wake better....really helped! Good luck.
   — Gena L.

July 24, 2008
I was nauseated for months after surgery and couldnt get in all of my water w/o nausea - mostly had gas in my stomach (even from drinking water). RNY surgeon gave rxs and then recommended "Papaya Supplement" which I bought at GNC. Seem to help a bit, but still had problem. Then 3 mos. after RNY, I had problems w/2 kidney stones and IMMEDIATELY, literally an hour after I had surgery - all the nausea went away. I had an insatiable taste for any fluid I could get my hands on. After talking with other RNY patients, they had procedures that was similar to "intubation" which they put the breathing tube down your throat during surgery. When that was accomplished that must have "forced" open my esophagas to my stomach. Hope this info. helps.
   — C-There

July 24, 2008
I am about 4 months post op. I had the same problem and figured out that it was the whey protein shakes I was drinking about 3 times per day in the beginning days and week after surgery. I called the nutritionist at barix clinics and she suggested the I go to GNC and purchase the soy based protein powder. It worked. The lactose intolerance that i had before surgery got worse after so the whey upset my stomach.
   — Tracy King