I just got banded today(6-20), with a hiatal hernia fix as well, and I have been home about an hour. Holy crap the shoulder pain is worse than the band pain! Lol . Woke up and felt it immediately. Hard to take deep breaths, But I am doing it. Walking around helps. I bought this great ice pack called Peas therapy, at CVS, and it came with a belt to put the pack in (for lower back pain), but i slung it over my shoulder and fastened it under the opposite arm, and it is awesome! But It literally took me 20 minutes to drink the 30ml of pain meds, ugh! Bloated but not too bad. If today is the worst I will feel, I will consider myself lucky!! Sipping on some broth, water and a sf Popsicle because my throat is really sore too. But overall, I feel pretty good!!

Ready for the new life!!

Congrats, I'm almost a week in since mine. My pain was so bad last Friday. I pushed through. Started feeling sick today and stayed home. i have a week immune system anyways so I chalked it up to germs from people at work..lol

Sticking to ice pops, soup, protien shakes, yogurt and cottage cheese so far. I don't feel like I get full just yet. Weird.

Good to hear you are doing well! Wishing you the best on your journey

I am trying to get the soup down since I don't feel like I've gotten much in yet, and I have had nothing but that for over 24 hours. I don't want to overdo it, but I feeling pretty weak from lack of anything in my stomach.

I could'nt have anything until the day after, all Doc's seem to be different. They gave me small cups of Ensure and applesauce. Then the next day I started back on Protien shakes from GNC, Lean Shake is good and apple sauce, greek yogurt and lots of water and diet snapple. Hang in there, the next few days will be rough but worth it.

Wow! Congratulations to u!

My doc has me on liquids for 2 weeks before I get applesauce :/ just protein shakes, strained soups, broth, Popsicles stuff like that.

I was banded yesterday also. My dr has me starting on soft foods the day after like mashed potatoes , yogurt, apple sauce, cream of wheat soup, and protein drinks for the next week.

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I was banded yesterday too. I agree 110% about the shoulder pain. OUCH! and the gas build up I feel under my ribs. My Dr. does no food for the first day then liquids only for the next week. The nurse at the hospital said many people say the second day is the worst. Good Luck!