Had my knee replaced and need to whine a little!

I’m so sorry. I get severely nauseated from anesthesia too. I was nauseated for a full month after one of my reconstruction surgeries. It really negatively impacts your quality of life. I hate it. Honestly, throughout my bilateral mastectomy and two 5-hour reconstruction surgeries, managing the nausea was much more challenging than managing the pain.

Just a heads up, during the last surgery they tried using the patch on me to help with the nausea. I then changed it after 3 days. 3 days later, I took it off and had severe rebound nausea. It felt like the whole world was a severely rocking boat deck. If I did anything but lay still I would throw up. It took 9-12 hours to get better. Some people are “blessed” with rebound nausea with the patch. Never again.

Next surgery, if you have another, ask for Emend before the anesthesia. It makes a WORLD of difference in the amount of nausea after general anesthesia. It is an expensive drug, used mainly with chemo patients, so they don’t readily offer it unless 1) your post-anesthesia nausea is documented and 2) you ask for it. It has to be taken 1-2 hours before the anesthesia and won’t work if you take it afterwards. For every pre-op meeting I have now, I make sure to tell them that I have severe nausea from anesthesia and need medication to help with it.

They gave me that before my gall bladder surgery. Like you said, they didn't offer it - I mentioned that in a previous surgery I was terribly nauseous afterwards and the anesthesiologist said: "I can take care of that." It helped so much! 

((((Hugs)))) and prayers. I've had that severe nausea post-op and it's awful

I’m so sorry. I get severe nausea with anesthesia too. I think the longest it’s affected me was 36 hrs though. I hope it either goes away on its own soon or you find relief via meds soon.

I'm sorry you're suffering. Nausea is one of the worst feelings, so hard to manage.
I hope your doc has a good solution for you today!

I'm thinking the oxycodone didn't agree with you. I'd be surprised if the anesthesia caused that much problem for that long. Definitely have to take pain meds with food in your system. My patients tend to do better with not as strong of a narcotic, unless they are used to taking a lot of meds for chronic pain. I'm glad you're feeling better. The UTI certainly didn't help matters.

Glad to hear you are feeling better--sounds like you are on track now for recovery and healing.

That sounds miserable. Glad you are feeling a little better today.

I hope you continue to improve quickly!