Irish, the acompanyment to nausea

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Hi Irish,

Well I have the chronic diarhhea going too. It's driving me NUTS.

This morning was just soooo awful, woke up horribly nauseated, that

I told me husband to move a band.. It actually broke in the hospital

and the surgeon was thinking he would just take it off, then he

said, nahh, here, I'll tighten it up a bit. Well once my husband

moved it over, I could open wide enough to get something in!(Haven't

been able to even do a shake.) I had crackers, no chewing, just

shoving it up against the roof of my mouth, and a bit of scrambled

eggs. I also tossed the liquid narcotics and am taking tylenol

pills. I feel immensely better, although I'm still queasy and

poopy!! I'm not sure when everyone gets bands removed? Is that a 6

week thing too?

THanks for the water pic idea. I bought one, and it is helping a LOT.

Alix

> Hey Alix,

>

> I've been thinking of you and this nausea thing. I also had a

nice

> accompaniment to the nausea, called chronic diaharrea. Because of

> that, I wanted to stay away from fruit juices for fear it would

make

> it worse. That left little else but milk products which caused

the

> mucous problem. Needless to say, I had a very rough start,

getting

> weaker each day as I couldn't tolerate much food. What I lived

off

> of, and forgot to mention to you earlier, was Vanilla and

Chocolate

> Boost. I'm not sure what in milk causes the mucous, the lactose?,

> but whatever it was, it wasn't in the Boost. It tasted great and

I

> enjoyed it really really cold. But it gave an aftertaste so I

> recommend the rinsing and cleaning immediately afterwards.

>

> As for the pain meds, I don't remember how long I took them but it

> certainly wasn't for 6 weeks. I think after a short time (after

the

> first week) I started to wean off of them and then only take when

> necessary, versus around the clock. And I was only taking Motrin.

>

> Hang in there! (and yes, 2 times and lived to tell about it! AND

> SMILING! You will too)

>

> Irish!

>

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>

> > > > how on earth do you clean your mouth? I'm banded and

splinted,

> 4

> > > > days postop, in pain...but i think the nausea is made worse

> from

> > > all

> > > > the build up of mucous in my mouth.. it feels icky. I wish i

> had

> > a

> > > > suction...any ideas? (and is this the congestion part?

because

> i

> > > can

> > > > breathe through my nose, the stuff is all in my mouth..)

> thanks,

> > > alix