I had my band put in 3/13/06 and am a very active person. I feel frustrated that I am not able to quickly move as I did before without thinking and feeling pain. Please let me know when I can expect to feel no pain and when will it feel like nothing is there?

I was banded 3/14/06 did ok yesterday with just liquid extra strength tylenol. Only a couple of places sore, especially where the port is. Finally slept in my bed last night. I'm not in much pain, just moving a little slower and get tired easy. I would say another week and we should be movin' on!

Give yourself a couple of weeks to really feel good...even now, I still feel my port, especially if I over eat. It is not a painful feeling, it's just that you are aware it is there.

Give yourself time to heal, even though I know you are impatient. Sometimes I think that learning patience is one of the best lessons the band teaches.

Cindy

I was banded on 2/22 and my incisions are still sensitive. Especially when my kids jump on me! My port is the most snesitive. But I am exercising and doing everything else normally. I just get little reminders every now and then that I am not so far out of surgery.

Thank you all that is very helpful. I do need to appreciate patience! I like the reminder!

i am just over two weeks post op and i actually played softball lastnight. had a few good hits then some not so good hits. i can tell that i am running a little slower but it felt good. good luck on your healing. you will know when it is better.

I am a couple of days over 3 weeks and am feeling great. I do have sharp burning pain now and then in the port area but other than that i am walking 4 miles a day and have been back to work since the day of my 2 week mark. I was instructed to not pick up any thing heavy for 6 weeks but unfortuneatly for me I have no option. I have a lawn business and have to strap a 40 pound backpack blower on my back at every stop we make to blow when we are done mowing and weedeating. You should be back up to par by week 2. Hang in there!!

I had my band put it last Wednesday...3/15.

Since about noon today I've had HORRIBLE indigestion-like pain

just below my mid-chest - - just above my middle incisions.

Anybody want to tell me if this is normal??? I am miserable.

This morning I felt great...went back to work (light duty)...then

started to drink a slim fast around 11am. Got 1/2 of it down.

Finished it around 2pm. Then at around 6pm I had 1/2 a can of tomato soup. The pain started around 12Noon. Do you think I just drank it too fast or what???????

Banded 3/1. Out an about for short spurts 3/3. Out of town 3/4. Walking around w/o pain 3/6. Now almost 3 weeks post-op I feel nothing. The only thing that ever hurts is if I bend over too far or too quickly, like toda when it was freezing rain and I tried to get in my car too quickly... and that's not a hurt so much as a slightly uncomfortable feeling that reminds me something was sewn into my muscle fascia just a few weeks ago.

I was banded on Jan 24th of this year. I felt the same way for about 5 or 6 weeks. I had a lot of pain in the port area. Now I finally feel totally normal. I did get a little upset in the beggining wondering if that feeling was going to last forever. But now I feel better then I have in years. Good luck. Jennifer