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Posted 5/26/2014 4:55 PM (GMT 0)
Hoping someone out there has suggestions for me. I had an ilieostomy with rectum and anus removal on May 19. Surgeon did a great job and all incisions and function of the pouch. Pain from abdomen is greatly diminished almost totally gone. However, I still have constant nausea. I need to take in more fluids and more food( wt @ surgery 97; wt now 87) Prescripted Zofran. Helps, but nausea still there every morning. And then all day. Any suggestions. Am drinking Gatorade for electrolyes. Trying to take in small amounts of food. Still weak. Am I overly impatient? Do not want to wait too long. MizBee
Posted 5/26/2014 9:02 PM (GMT 0)
Is there much output from your stoma? If it's very low you may have an Ileus, where the small intestine "goes to sleep". However, when I had mine I was throwing up litres per day of thick green stomach bile, even with an NG tube in!
Posted 5/26/2014 9:11 PM (GMT 0)
Are you on any pain meds? It might be the pain med causing it, and switching to something else might help.

You also might try an electrolyte drink that has less sugar than gatorade (e.g. pedialyte or you can make your own .... I drink vitalyte).

I spent the first night I came home from the hospital after surgery vomiting all night ... was from the dilauded. Got off of that and I was much better.

Can you check in w/your surgeon's office? It's normal to be weak and maybe not feel great, but there might be a way to make things better.

Hang in.
Posted 5/28/2014 3:24 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for the suggestions. There was the green bile things for the first couple of days. Stopped vomiting on Sunday and it is Wednesday. I definitely can see the small intestines being asleep. That is what it felt like. My stomach would take everything in. Sit on it for four to five hours and when there was no forward momentum, everything came back up. That has diminished. I think I may have been too optimistic about how I would feel better right away.
Thanks fir the suggestions on other drinks, I will look for them. I remember pedialyte from my children and it taste nasty. Still they gave us a recipe to make our own. I am not on any pain killers. Taking Ziphran for nausea. Pain killers might help my lower back but not ready to throw another drug into the mix.
Also, thanks for the encouragement that things will improve. Having five incisions in my abdomen, a pouch. and a bum they had to sew up is exhausting. I know I will get there and "thre" is suppose tobe better than the last three years. Your time to respond really means a lot to me. Miz Bee
Posted 5/30/2014 6:40 PM (GMT 0)
I find that when I'm really dehydrated, the pedialyte hardly has any taste at all.... I can tell I'm getting better when it starts to taste nasty again. If you only tried it when the kids were sick and you weren't, perhaps you'd find the same (perhaps not).

Hang in. You're still quite close to surgery.... definitely frustrating at the beginning, but it really can get a lot better.
Posted 5/30/2014 7:28 PM (GMT 0)
Have you been able to walk a lot? If you have Ileus then walking can help wake up your small intestine.

How is your blood work?
Posted 5/31/2014 1:23 AM (GMT 0)
      Cut out the Gatorade.  A few weeks after I came home from the hospital, I had diarrhea, drank Gatorade and barfed like all get out.  Had to go to the hospital so they could hydrate me.
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