I'm more nervous about this than my lap band surgery, guess I don't want to anticipate the pain, grrr. And recovery! Hope I can sleep tonight, if not it will be a long night and a date with my Kindle. Got to get up at 4:45 a.m. and I'm so not a morning person. Maybe I should call one of the high school bands to come play outside my window to wake me up...bahahaha Had to find humor in it somehow.

U will do fine I had mine removed 10 yrs ago. Good luck and I hope u have a speedy recovery

Mine came out when I was 30.... You will be fine... Recovery similar to the band...maybe a little longer.

Best wishes

thanks ladies. I think I'm headed to bed now, getting sleepy as I got up early this morning for church and have done a lot today, errands including the task of Walmart on a Sunday afternoon, whew, the dog a bath, washed 4 loads of laundry, changed bed, cleaned house and all of this done after 1:00 and before 7:00 tonight. Walmart was a madhouse but got a few stocking stuffers for my mom/brother/sister-in-law. I will try and get online in a few days. nighty night.

Keeping you in my thoughts & prayers Donna! Just think before long you can really enjoy band and feel well doing it.

Keep us posted!

thank you all for the prayers and well wishes. Got up this morning at 4:45, still sleepy but I did get 5 hrs sleep. Not so anxious now that it is here.

God Bless

Donna

thank you all for the prayers and well wishes. Got up this morning at 4:45' date=' still sleepy but I did get 5 hrs sleep. Not so anxious now that it is here.

God Bless

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Hope you are doing well.

I am thinking of you. You will be okay. Said a prayer and hope to see you online again soon

well, I'm back! Oh my goodness, what an ordeal this has been. I got to the hospital ok, got in a holding room for surgery and it was suppose to have been at 8:15 but I didn't get into OR until 9:00. What was supposed to have been a rather easy and short 30 min operation ended up taking him 2 hrs. He said that my gallbladder was so diseased and full of gallstones that no wonder I had been sick from day one of my lap band surgery. I mean literally I had been living on Dramamine practically every day along with other symptoms. He said that he had to cut my gallbladder away from my liver and I started bleeding really bad and he had to get that under control. With all that said, I had to spend the night in the hospital Monday night and had a drainage tube draining blood and Fluid. It was along night, got only 2 hrs sleep that night, just in an awful lot of pain that night and was cotton mouth so thirsty so I kept drinking Water therefore had to potty every hour on the hour. Let's just say I was worn out by the time I got home late yesterday afternoon. It was good to sleep in my own bed. Experiencing a lot of gas and gas pains like the lap band surgery and let me tell you I would rate this right up there with my hysterectomy, a lot more painful than lap band. Today I took a nap for about an hour. And here I go again on the severe constipation road. Haven't gone since Sunday and feel really bloated. Have taken stool softeners and laxatives but if I haven't gone by morning I will drink a small amount of Mag. Citrate to get things moving along.

Good to be back online. Well I'm off to take a pain pill. Thank you all for thinking of me.

Donna

I had mine removed the end of October and for me gallbladder surgery recovery was way easier than lap band recovery. I had a lot of port pain and horrible nausea after my band surgery though.

So glad to see you back. I was worried. Hope you feel better. Keep us posted