twinmommie

There is no comparison whatsoever. It is like comparing a stubbed toe to a broken foot :0). Almost no pain for me and I never did more than 1 pain pill after surgery.
Really the only pain I had was if I would cough and even then that was manageable. I suffered a little more from being tired a few days after surgery.
I did have the shoulder pain which wasn't pleasant but the incisions were a piece of cake.

Great question, I too have had 2 ceasarean births and I did good, so I'm planning on doing great with the laporscopic surgery... but I was curious to see about all this gas pain and such that I've been hearing about. Thanks for the feedback everyone. I also heard that your body will recover faster if you exercise now, before the surgery, so I started today-30 min.s on the tmill, ya hoo baby... 13 days to go...

The gas was more of just an uncomfortable feeling for me than real pain. I was sore after the surgery and couldn't sleep on my left side for about a week, but it was very minimal and I took exactly one pain pill for it.

i had 2 c sections. the lap band is nothing compared to them. you dont even get any stitches or staples with the band. they just use tape over the incisions. relax it is practically painless.

The band was much easier for me! It seemed to be a totally different kind of pain that was not near as bad as my c-section.

I agree 100%, this is NOWHERE NEAR as bad as a c/s was on me. I'm a whimp about pain so you can take my word for it. lol. I was just banded on Wednesday and haven't taken any pain meds for two days now, and even then on Saturday I only took a teaspoon of the vicodin twice, Friday I also only took it twice.

I was banded on April 28th. I had next to no pain. I never took the perscription pain medicince or liquid tylonal ever. It was more of an uncomfortable feeling. I did have some gas around the 3rd day so I took gas X strips and felt better instantly. I was real scared about the pain but there really hasn't been much.