Danette

You may still have some fluid retention or surgical gas in your abdomen. Plus just general swelling from all the prodding & poking, pulling & pushing from the surgery. If it persists, give your surgeon a call. If it is painful to touch or warm, go to your nearest medical centre as you may have an infection - rare but …

That's normal at 5 days out. You still have the surgical gas in your system. It took me about 10 days to get rid of all the gas (you have to walk a lot, and for the first 2 weeks after the sleeve, I really struggled with that) and the fluid retention from the surgery doesn't help. Took me a good 7-8 days to lose the water I was holding on to from the surgery. Within 2 weeks, you should be back to normal.