I am 6 days post surgery. Required no pain med in hospital, but when I got home, dealing with gas pain, and constipation. Not able to eat all my required full diet food, because of the uncomfortable gas and constipation. I walk a lot, and have only minor soreness at the port site, and no other pain, but this gas and constipation is not fun. I tried apple juice diluted with water last night, and wanted to die after. I had such gas all night. Finally fell asleep with the heating pad in the recliner.

Since we cannot really swallow pills anymore, what type of stool softeners are best? I am 5 days post surgery now and am starting to feel pain from this issue as well. Since I am on mushies, I am just trying to rely on getting in a bit of banana or apple sauce or something in the mornings. Not sure that is helping much, but I do know Fiber is a good thing.

Pills don't get stuck. I have never heard a lap band doctor complain about not being able to take pills no matter how tight you are. I am really restricted (9cc in an 11cc band) but I take a huge, non-chewable Multivitamin everyday, no problems)

pills don't get stuck. I have never heard a LAP-BAND® doctor complain about not being able to take pills no matter how tight you are. I am really restricted (9cc in an 11cc band) but I take a huge, non-chewable multivitamin everyday, no problems)

See, for me, I was told nothing any larger than a birth control pill. So I went and talked to my allergy doc and other docs and got liquid or smaller forms of any meds I am currently taking. I was also told no advil or aleve - ever. Only tylenol. No fish oil capsules - too big, only liquid. Mostly, they told me for good measure, liquid or chewable is the way to go. I am new to this all, so I am following my docs rules. But I glad to hear that people do not in fact have problems with pills. I might need to take one eventually. LOL

Since I was just banded on Monday, I obviously don't have any restriction and pills are no problem for me.

I've take Tylenol, my BP meds (one is a fairly big capsule that can't be crushed or split), my Pill and allergy meds. I did switch to a chewable Vitamin, but may try to go back to a regular one.

The stool softeners were gelcaps, so if you are worried, those might go down easier than a regular tablet.

Good luck!

kagead

I have 6.8 in a 10 cc band and have never had problems taking any pills. I take a reg fish/flax and do fine with it. I guess everyone and every doc is different.

Ducolax works pretty well and is really gentle. I have to take it often.

:thumbup:

I've never taken a laxative in my life, never needed one - should have listened to the nurse that discharged me, MoM really is the sh*t! - def had probs with the guts slowing down and it was more than two weeks til I finally was like oh yeah I was supposed to take that stuff...well it did the trick

pros: gentle, fast, and though the scale says different, it sure seemed like I lost weight!

cons: hope you're not doing anything in a few hours, be near a bathroom pls

I may need to find an alternative for more routine maintenance...MoM was kinda like using pipe snake on myself