Grace
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I just went to see my GP to sort out various meds and prescritions.
SRH prescrbed me an anti-nausea pill called Ondanzetron, which has been woring very well. However, apparently it is also super-expensive so my GP was reluctant to prescribe any more. :sigh:
Here we go again with the cash-strapped NHS. :sigh:
Not wanting to be a pain, I agreed ta cheaper alternative. However, the drug prescribed (called Domperidone or Motilium) works by:
'helping to move food faster through your food pipe (oeasophagus), stomach and gut. This is so that it does not stay in the same place for too long. It also helps food flowing the wrong way ack up your food pipe. (oesophagus)'
according to the leaflet.
That doesn't sound like an ideal pill for use in a gastric bypass patient, to me.
I will be ringing SRH in the morning to get their thoughts. I just wondered in the meantime, if anyone else has had this problem of prolonged nausea post-op, and what if anything, they were given to help?
On a separate issue, my GP remarked that he thought that were I to be trying for funding for WLS now, I very likely wouldn't get it. It makes me so cross. Lets save £9000 now, and spend 3 or 4 times that much in a few years, when my health and quality of life have deteriorated.
Short-term thinking! I'm so sorry for people battling for funding now.
SRH prescrbed me an anti-nausea pill called Ondanzetron, which has been woring very well. However, apparently it is also super-expensive so my GP was reluctant to prescribe any more. :sigh:
Here we go again with the cash-strapped NHS. :sigh:
Not wanting to be a pain, I agreed ta cheaper alternative. However, the drug prescribed (called Domperidone or Motilium) works by:
'helping to move food faster through your food pipe (oeasophagus), stomach and gut. This is so that it does not stay in the same place for too long. It also helps food flowing the wrong way ack up your food pipe. (oesophagus)'
according to the leaflet.
That doesn't sound like an ideal pill for use in a gastric bypass patient, to me.
I will be ringing SRH in the morning to get their thoughts. I just wondered in the meantime, if anyone else has had this problem of prolonged nausea post-op, and what if anything, they were given to help?
On a separate issue, my GP remarked that he thought that were I to be trying for funding for WLS now, I very likely wouldn't get it. It makes me so cross. Lets save £9000 now, and spend 3 or 4 times that much in a few years, when my health and quality of life have deteriorated.
Short-term thinking! I'm so sorry for people battling for funding now.
