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Nausea after knee replacement

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jenkie
jenkie

This is a topic I keep forgetting to address,  don't know why though ,because I am nauseous everyday.  I have to force myself to eat .  I only take pain meds before PT which is 3x a week.  that's 6 a week.  I know they can cause nausea.  anyone else experience this and are you finding any relief somehow?

I will be 7 weeks out from total knee replacement

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  • Oldfatguy1
    Oldfatguy1 jenkie

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    Talk to your primary care Dr. They are better than surgeons as far as coming up with a cocktail of meds to help with pain and all the other side effects. Some times it takes 2 or 3 drugs to do the job.
  • MAT2018
    MAT2018 jenkie

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    Jenkie,  I had the same problem for about 6 weeks after the surgery. Like you I was nauseous everyday, forced myself to eat and really wasn't taking pain meds other than 2x a week for PT.   No clue what was going on...I could eat chicken soup and plain white crackers or plain popcorn...that was the only thing I could keep down.  I thought it was the pain medication but what didn't make sense is that I was only taking the medication 2 x a week and this was going on every day.  But now I am at 10 weeks and for some reason starting week 9 no nausea even though I am still taking the pain medications on PT days.  My thought is we all process pain differently????!!!  I know when I was younger and had migraines all the time... I had lots of nausea.  So I thought it how my body dealt with the surgery????   No clue just guessing here.  

  • teri08825
    teri08825 jenkie

    Posted

    1. I am having same issue

      4 weeks after surgery

      no appetite

      nauseous

      cut back big time on pain medication but cant sleep

    any great ideas are greatly wekcome

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