Anna2012

My name is Shanta’ and I am actually sending this message on behalf of my mother Anna who has gastric bypass surgery yesterday. I encouraged her to join a support group to help her through this process and I came across this forum. As I mentioned she had gastric bypass surgery and she’s having a hard time. I’ve seen several posts on here where people did well and didn’t have a lot of pain at all afterwards. She seems to be the opposite and is quite a bit of pain. She has back problems so laying immobile in the bed doesn’t help. She didn’t get her pain meds until a few hours after surgery because the pharmacy had to wait to confirm it so the pain caught up with her. I wanted to ask how long will it take generally for the pain to subside.?. How did most handle the pain once they were released from the hospital, what did they take? Any tricks to minimize the pain? Due to the pain she’s second guessing her decision but I told her it will get better and she will be better health wise, it will just take time. So anyone who can offer anY words of encouragement or advice with her being new to the forum it would be great. Thanks in advance