# Had general anesthetic 12 years ago, vomited a lot - can they fix that? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 1, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606 "2012-11-01T20:11:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/21 "2012-11-02T23:26:24Z")
About 25 yrs ago, I had oral surgery under general anesthesia and I puked and puked. I had my tubes tied 10 yrs ago and I told them I puked with anesthesia and I don’t know what they did, but no puking that time at all. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/22 "2012-11-02T23:32:15Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > And you can record the volume, for bragging purposes! 😛 And you can twist them closed and throw them away. Much more pleasant for the thrower-away as well. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/23 "2012-11-03T15:05:13Z")
Hi Everybody - I made it! I talked with the anesthetist, and they did give me Zofran at some point (I overheard them talking about it in recovery). It helped A LOT - I felt queasy but it was manageable if I just stayed still, until they gave me some Tylenol 3’s and tried to talk to me - I just about went off then, but they pushed some gravol in my IV, and that did the trick. It set my discharge time back because I was so dopey, but what the hell. 🙂 I think it’s weird that I’m so sensitive to nausea from these meds, but I don’t puke otherwise at all (unless I get drunk, and I don’t drink any more). I have to say, too, that the whole experience was like night and day from the last time I had surgery. The care I received yesterday was universally excellent and caring, not like last time when they were cold and callous - “So, you’re puking? Too bad - that happens, get out.” ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/24 "2012-11-03T15:07:48Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Hi Everybody - I made it! Yay! Glad to hear the Cat got fixed. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/25 "2012-11-03T15:22:18Z")
Heh - that’s how I should describe it - “I got spayed this weekend.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/26 "2012-11-03T15:34:12Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Heh - that’s how I should describe it - “I got spayed this weekend.” 😃 Lol! 😛 Congrats, and glad you got some good suggestions and less nausea this time around 🙂 The Dopers are so great 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/27 "2012-11-03T17:30:49Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It set my discharge time back because I was so dopey, but what the hell. Some people would call that a side effect. Some would call it a bonus. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/28 "2012-11-03T17:43:25Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Heh - that’s how I should describe it - “I got spayed this weekend.” 😃 Nah, you can’t claim to be spayed unless you’ve had your uterus and ovaries removed. Which I have. So I’m spayed, you’re just sterile. Another way to tell if you’re spayed…when you pass the feminine products aisle, and you grin, because you don’t need ANY of that shit any more. Congratulations, by the way. Sex is SO much more fun when you aren’t worrying about getting pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/29 "2012-11-03T19:11:11Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Some people would call that a side effect. Some would call it a bonus. After giving me the gravol, the nurse came over and asked if I wanted to try to get up and go to the bathroom (you have to pee before they let you leave). I politely declined - I was having a nice floaty time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/30 "2012-11-03T20:27:26Z")
Now that you no longer need useful information, I can say that my first reaction to the headline was “not without a time machine.” > [@Derleth](#): > > “So good, patients ask for it by name!” > > Where I come from, that’s an ad campaign right there. Where I come from it’s the sign of a hardened addict. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/31 "2012-11-03T20:50:02Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > Unless you had wisdom teeth surgery. Then there might be lots of blood to vomit up! > > Good times, good times… That happened to me when my wisdom teeth were taken out. Threw up in front of my best friend at the time, when he came by with a get well card and a rosebud for me. Absolutely humiliating. On the plus side, I didn’t need more than aspirin to control post-op pain. Not sure how I lucked out on that. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/32 "2012-11-04T02:21:51Z")
> [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](#): > > Now that you no longer need useful information, I can say that my first reaction to the headline was “not without a time machine.”\ That would have been awesome - someone showing up in the recovery room and fixing my vomiting instantly. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/33 "2012-11-04T03:46:19Z")
> [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](#): > > Where I come from it’s the sign of a hardened addict. Zofran is hardly a drug of abuse. It has absolutely no physically addictive properties. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/34 "2012-11-04T04:46:42Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > That happened to me when my wisdom teeth were taken out. > > Threw up in front of my best friend at the time, when he came by with a get well card and a rosebud for me. Absolutely humiliating. > > On the plus side, I didn’t need more than aspirin to control post-op pain. Not sure how I lucked out on that. I had a cakewalk experience with wisdom teeth. No nausea, no vomiting, no pain that a bunch of Advil and Tylenol couldn’t handle. I came back to awareness in the car on the way home and was totally coherent and with it from there on out. I was given a prescription for Zofran just in case, but never touched it. My brother had it done a couple of years before me and he was a mess. Spaced out and loopy for hours, vomiting up blood, etc. He was so wobbly he couldn’t stand, but he didn’t have the wherewithal to realize it, so I had to sit in the living room with him for a couple of hours to make sure he didn’t try to get off the couch and do a face plant. I don’t know why he had it so hard and I didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606/35 "2012-11-04T14:37:29Z")
> [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](#): > > Zofran is hardly a drug of abuse. It has absolutely no physically addictive properties. Right, but asking for it violates the rule that says doctors shall have medical knowledge and patients shall do what they’re told, and anyone participating in their own care must have an ulterior motive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-general-anesthetic-12-years-ago-vomited-a-lot-can-they-fix-that/639606.md?page=1)