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When they laid me on the surgery table I said it was very unconfortable (my back was "floating" and starting to hurt), but they said it wouldn't matter... I'm pretty sure that was one of the main causes of back pain, associated with the gas, of course

@ @@Djmohr Thanks for the kind words! I'm feeling a lot better right now (4 weeks post op), tho. So it kinda "erases" the past. Bah! Bad nurses like that can totally ruin your experience, that is not very good to begin with (having a surgery), I'm glad she could be "dealed with". I could barely sleep the first night back at my room too (making me more than 30 hours awake...), laying down is very uncorfotable as you mentioned. All they could do was intramuscular dipyrone (ouch) OR liquid tylenol (boy, that tasted SO BAD), after the medicine, they told me just to keep walking (3, 4, 5AM...). Apparently that's the surgeon's orders - the nurses just do whatever he allows. He's held as the "best bariatric surgeon", lots of celebrities from here specifically want him to do the surgery. He operates around 3~5 people per day, so his visits are very brief (like 5 mins, max), leaving us with no time to complain about it. I'll make sure to question him this thursday when I have the 1 month post-surgery appointment. By the way, they actually said the contrary to your last statement - "You gotta withstand the pain, you'll heal faster. It's a part of the process, we won't be suffocating you with unnecessary medications.". The other doctor that assists his surgeries always kept bringing you down like you are a wimp for not withstanding the pain ahhahaha. I actually believed all that, but reading posts here has opened my mind. I'm glad that's over, tho. The other two people that had the surgery with me didn't feel as much pain, but one of them had an obstruction and had do redo it, and the other had to stay 1 more week in the hospital because of some others complications.

Woah! They refused to give me morphine after the surgery, I have no idea why, they don't do morphine for any of the patietns that had RNY. I had to stay awake for 24 hours straight (in the recovery room) since the pain was unbearable, specially on my back. Actually, the only medicine I've received there was tylenol and dipyrone (like yeah, it's gonna soothe the pain, ok), after hours of moaning and real hard pain they were "kind enough" to give me something a little stronger, Ketoprofen. Great to hear you didn't feel the same. Once you start walking around you'll feel a lot better (and won't want to sit or lay down ahahhaa).

My doctor will not allow any of his patients to drive for a month after the surgery