Sleeved 8/24

lillee · August 31, 2011

7 days post op and doing well. Before I give an update I wanted to say that my comupter crashed a few days before surgery and I was unable to respond to those that started friend requests with me - you know who you are, please write me and let me know how your doing.

Surgery was scheduled for 9:50 am but was postponed as the surgery before mine ran longer than expected so I actually went in around non. When I woke up in recovery there was some pain but the immediately got it under control with pain meds. I was in recovery for 4 hours ( I only know this because when i first woke up there it was 3pm when I finally got to my room it was 7pm). Apparently they had to get my pain under control, I don't remember much of this as I must have slept each time they gave me meds. I just knew in my mind that when I got to my room I had to walk. Believe it or not as soon as I got to my room I asked my nurse if I could walk, eveyone seemed surprised but I did it and I continued to walk every few hours throughout my stay (day and night). Everything on this site tells you to walk to get better so that is what I did. IT WORKS!! I had much better recovery than other WLS patients that were there the same time as me. Gas = pain so walk walk walk to get it out! Day 2 was rough as I learned to drink again, you must take much smaller sips then you are used to and it hurts a bit almost like something is stuck. Dr assured me it would be better the next day and he was right. So here I am 7 days post op - down 14 lbs and doing great. I don't take pain meds, I walk for an hour each day and feel great. Just tired and need to nap daily. Loving the sleeve.

KristeyK · August 31, 2011

WAY TO GO LILLEE!!!! We are having VERY similar experiences. I am LOVING this sleeve. No pain here either, just itching from the dermabond over my incisions. (Dr. doesn't use staples. YAY!) I was like you, I was out of bed as soon as I could possibly swing it, and it cracked me up that the nurses were surprised that I wanted to get up and move so much. I fully believe that contributed to my lack of pain. I think I used my PCA pump four times while I was there. (I was given an ice pack, and I pretty much kept it on my abdomen the entire time.)

And welcome back to the land of "I have a working computer" too.

Keep up the great work!!!

razrbakcrzy · August 31, 2011

You ladies are poster children for the walking it out method.. You did just the right thing you took the bull by the horns and did it CONGRATULATIONS!!! Welcome to the club!!!! and Good luck on your journey!