I was just banded today and having a problem getting rid of what I think are hunger pains? not sure, could be the gassss. but i'm so excited to start this journey.:biggrin1: Any suggestions to figuring out what this pain is.

Shantell

K,

I was banded on 6/20 and have horrible gas pains too. That is from the surgery. They have to blow up your cavity in order to operate. It will go away, you need to walk and if Gasex helps take that. I have not felt depressed but am very hungry and grouchy!

I am still on Clear Liquids and will be able to add yogurt tomorrow! Can't wait. I've lost 13 lbs so far.

Good luck

For about 3 weeks after my surgery I had really strange sounds coming from my stomach. Loud growling rumbling sounds. My husband would say "Watch it she's gonna blow". It got really funny...so I warned the people at work that I may make funny sounds during meetings. It went away for the most part now 3 months out it only happens occasionally.

The day after going under general anthestsia I always have a crying jag (I have to have a general to do major dental work so I've been under several times.) Anthestsia depresses me, but it goes away in a day or two. Not major depression just a sad down feeling.

You "fresh from surgery" bandsters will be fine before you know it. I haven't regretted this for even one minute.

WELCOME TO THE BAND!!!!

I'm 2-1/2 weeks post-op and still have a hard time determining whether I'm full, gassy, or dreaming....LOL. We will learn to recognize these feelings soon enough. The body is still in the healing stages so we will be feeling all sorts for things.

As for the depression......I left that behind the day before I had surgery. I am so elated about having this surgery that nothing or nobody can bring me down.....There is no time for depression now, that stage of my life is over....I spent enough of my life being depressed over being overweight....no more! I'm so happy I could spit! No way will I spend precious time grieving the very thing that put me in a position to have to have surgery in the first place. I say....good bye and good riddens to all that crap in my past!

Carol

Hi Everyone! I had bootcamp yesterday, it was good. I was gonna have heel spur surgery today and mentioned it to my doctor. He said wait because of any chance of infection. and then I said that I would have to take meds for infection and he said if I had done it and said nothing, I would have bled during the lap band surgery! I Thank God I told him. I was only worried that I wouldn't be able to walk right after surgery! I lost weight since I saw him last and only need to be on liquids 1 day before surgery. Well off to the pool do exercice! Patti

Perhaps my surgeon didn't place the band and this is a bad joke he is playing on me I woke up in recovery with pain in the port area and that was it...no nausea, no dry heaves, no gas. I was banded July 18, and have had absolutely no symptoms of any kind. I guess the band is there because I get full quickly and I've lost 6 lbs. without a fill. I never had a bit of gas, never anything but a sense of fullness, never any rumbling sounds. I'm 64-years-old and I should have had the problems :target: but I couldn't be happier. If it wasn't for a bad knee I would feel years and years younger. Perhaps I am an exception, and perhaps, just perhaps, the problems will come after a fill and I will most definitely come here for support, but so far I feel great. My port area stopped hurting just days after surgery and my stitches are dissolving nicely with not a bit of redness. Thank you God for taking this journey with me and good luck to all the rest of you.