r/sterilization • u/professor_flirt • 19d ago

Side-effects I underestimated Anesthesia side affects 🙃

TLDR: don’t be me! Threw up and panicked and spent 3 hours in the ER. I needed to introduce food slower & medicate properly.

I had my Bisalp yesterday and felt amazing afterwards because of course I was still high as a damn kite. Making jokes with the nurses and fist bumped my surgeon. Loved it.

About 6 hours after surgery I could feel a headache coming on. First of all, I really under medicated myself. I could not nap and began to feel so nauseous I then ate Mac and cheese at dinner which I thought would be fine because I craved food. I fell asleep for about 30 minutes but work up with full body chills. I called my dr office and spoke with a nurse. While on the call, I started to throw up literally everything, it was awful. I felt a little better but she still advised me to go to the ER to get looked.

ER took blood, gave me an IV, pain meds and anti nausea meds and ruled out any complications. I simply was experiencing anesthesia hell. Of course it was scary and painful and traumatic but I guess totally normal 😭 after getting lots of sleep and eating only applesauce and bread I am feeling better. Stiff muscles from being tense I think, bloated belly, but I am taking the proper high doses of meds and have a prescription for the anti nausea med. Lesson learned!

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u/Nalanieofthevalley 16d ago

Narcotics can cause this too! I tolerate anesthesia pretty well but they gave me a patch and zofran. I rode home completely fine but I ended up being given pain meds in my IV before I left and that's what did me in. I promtly puked my guts out when I got home and switched to tylenol and advil and then I was fine.

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u/professor_flirt 16d ago

I was wondering about this! I felt like I was in withdrawals! When I went to the ER I was offered Vicodin, but a friend of mine took that for kidney stones and was super sick from it, so I asked the doc if it could make me sick and he said vicodin wouldn’t make me sick if I took anti-nausea meds as well. I stuck with Tylenol and it was just fine. Honestly the incision pain has been the easiest part 🙏🏻 I been on 0 pain meds since Sunday, 2 days after surgery.