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i just got banded yesterday. It took forever for them to take me back. My surgery was scheduled at 2:00 checked in at 11:30 had an IV in since 12 noon got taken back to surgery at 4 pm, was rushed out of recovery at about 7 pm they needed room for the next patient. In super pain maybe where my port is ? Doctor nor doctors office called to check on me. Been alternating between advil liquid caps and childrens meltaways, Did the hideous that I should not have done and added 3/4 of a banana to my Protein Shake this morning, Finally found out through hospital nurse I should not have done that because we are taking care of the stitches. Nausea was horrible until I had my Protein shake my stomach finally settled but massive headache remained. I have a patch behind my ear for nausea. Any reassuring postive feedback is welcomed. Thank You.

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It gets better everyday. Keep as active as you can. Walk around your house. Get up every hour during the day. That expels the gas which is most likely your pain. you only want Clear Liquids and the Protein Shakes. broth, sugar free popsicles and Jello are your friend right now. And lots of Water.< /p>

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It gets better everyday. Keep as active as you can. Walk around your house. Get up every hour during the day. That expels the gas which is most likely your pain. you only want clear liquids and the Protein shakes. broth, sugar free popsicles and Jello are your friend right now. And lots of Water.

Aww thank you BobRocky! ou look like your rocking and rolling,How long did it take for the pain to subside?

I Took a warm shower. First one since getting banded feel a little better and noticed that the warm shower hitting my belly felt really really soothing! I drank original tea tonight and seemed to burn going down didnt finish it either. My belly wants consistency which is tortureous on this liquid Fluid diet'

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My goodness, your doctor doesn't sound very patient friendly. Mine has been wonderful. They gave me a prescription for codine for pain. It helped alot. I took that for a couple days. I did stay in the hospital over night as well. Be careful what you add to your Protein Drinks. Keep to liquids only. You def need time to heal. They pain will get better. After about a week, I felt really good. Congrats on getting banded.

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I had surgery on Tuesday and the gas has been so bad and so painful. Just started taking the Protein and I cant tell if the rumbling in my stomach is due to hunger or gas. I'm going to try the advice given to you and hopefully it works. I hope that you feel better soon. Everyone here is so nice and helpful with advice.

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I never had incision pain, peanut. My gas pain lasted about 3 days and then started going away pretty fast. I never got it in my chest or shoulders, just in the stomach area the more active I was, the faster the gas left. I didn't like getting up every hour, but now I'm glad I did.

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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