Hey there everyone

thankyou for your well wishes. everything went well... no major probs that i know of.

I know i woke up from the general in catastrophic pain. i had a belly full of gas that travelled to my sholder or put pressure on my sholder. *shrugs* was also putting major pressure on my diafram. I was poking into my chest and the recovery team were trying to stop me. after 5 hours in recovery and 4to 5 shots of morphine i sat up and the pain went away or moved should i say.....sort of. maybe i was just total rattled from the drugs. im now 4 days out and still have that gas pain but on a smaller scale. no drain either. (thank god)

Fluids are hard to get in still. over the 4 days i have only managed to get 1 and a half 600ml/16oz bottles of Water in. ridding on the edge of a headache. jelly/jello seems to be the easiest to swallow.

I think this is a great time to get use to eating and drinking slowly cause i basically have no choice!!!

cant wait to go back to optifast!!!! roll on the coffee and the strawberry shakes!!!!

ohhh and cant wait to weigh in next monday too!!! should be interesting!

cheers

Ange

LOL -- that is so funny Judy -- and so like adolescent boys!

Great to hear from you and hear all is well. I thought the Gas X strips didn't help.... do they? Should I buy some before surgery?

My husband thinks they do help, but not with the intense left shoulder pain kind of gas from the surgery. Walking is supposed to be the only thing that helps that.

I guess I was lucky, I never experienced any of the related shoulder pain with either my band or sleeve surgeries.

I am on day 19 post op and I have still not returned to work yet. At first I had a lot of energy and probably tried to do too much too soon, but I have been transitioning to solids and maybe that is the problem.. It seems I am having too much pain considering I am almost 3 weeks out!

Sometimes the pains are sharp (left side)... I saw my doc last Thursday and he said pain was normal, but it scares me a little - I just want to know if this is normal, because I thought I would be back to work already and I thought the pain would be gone.

I did have hernia surgery along with my sleeve and my doc said I had one of the worst hiatal hernia's he has ever worked on... maybe that has made the recovery longer????

Can anyone relate?

I am on day 19 post op and I have still not returned to work yet. At first I had a lot of energy and probably tried to do too much too soon, but I have been transitioning to solids and maybe that is the problem.. It seems I am having too much pain considering I am almost 3 weeks out!

Sometimes the pains are sharp (left side)... I saw my doc last Thursday and he said pain was normal, but it scares me a little - I just want to know if this is normal, because I thought I would be back to work already and I thought the pain would be gone.

I did have hernia surgery along with my sleeve and my doc said I had one of the worst hiatal hernia's he has ever worked on... maybe that has made the recovery longer????

Can anyone relate?

My husband has had pain until just very recently (He will be 3 weeks out on Tuesday) and has had to at least occasionally take his pain med. I know some on here say they barely needed pain meds or were off them very early, but I know also that has not been the case for him. He also had a diseased gallbladder out at the same time. So perhaps having an additional surgery simultaneously makes it more painful (like you had with the hernia.) Whatever, I don't think you're alone in still having some pain 3 weeks out.

The hiatal hernia repair *definitely* can slow your progress. Because of mine, my surgeon had me wait a couple of extra weeks to try solids.

The hiatal hernia repair *definitely* can slow your progress. Because of mine, my surgeon had me wait a couple of extra weeks to try solids.

I would agree with you Mac -- I am just now (2 months out) starting to experiment with non-mushies.