I seriously thought this surgery would be no big deal for me, I am young and a fighter. However, I was WRONG. I feel like I have gotten the crap kicked out of me! I was told I wasn't breathing properly in the hospital and while recovering the nurses were literally yelling at me to breath. I tested negative for sleep apnea but I think the test was wrong. I am afraid to fall asleep now because I will quit breathing , also my lungs hurt. My stomach hurts and so does my esophagus, everytime I sip I have a huge gas/growl that comes up, and it isn't a burp it just is angry. I am not feeling nauseous, just sick and HUNGRY.

Have you guys gone through the same thing? I hope it gets better, I am almost regretting what I did.

The liquid lortab tastes so bitter to me. It's hard for me to get down.

I did not know Benadryl was highly addictive. Good thing I stopped taking it.

Good to know but I am not sure why people rob pharmacies for this, it barley touches my pain just makes me sleepy

The extended release oxy, if you chew it apparently gives you a heroin-like high.

I guess that's why, but I still don't understand it - jump out of an airplane -gives the same high

I got Omeprazole to keep away heartburn and Lortab. That's it except for my blood pressure meds and a small D3 capsule that I now take. I have chewable multi-vitamins, (Celebrate) and chewable calcium, (Calcet).

People's tastes are different, aren't they? I actually like the taste of Lortab. I guess it could be a conditioned response, I know I'll feel better and will be in a better mood after dosage. At one time in my life I liked smoking and wiskey, too. :ack2:

People's tastes are different, aren't they? I actually like the taste of Lortab. I guess it could be a conditioned response, I know I'll feel better and will be in a better mood after dosage. At one time in my life I liked smoking and wiskey, too. :ack2:

Lol I love how Lortab trastes too ha ha ha I still have some from surgery .

I was sent home with liquid Lortab (1 tbsp. every six hours as needed), Simethicone (gas-x), Prevacid. I didn't have any nausea, so I didn't need anything for that...that's scary that you had to tell the nurse to cut a pill up! Hope you're doing better today, hun.

I too was given the lortab elixir...it is a bit--tangy, but it seems to kick in pretty quickly. I'm day 4 now, and I do feel better than yesterday...I was Rxd levsin, I think, but I haven't taken it yet cuz the pharmacy didnt have it and had to wait for today to ask the doc if a substitute was ok...gasx strips in the meantime...Hope you start to feel better soon!

I was given naproxen - which is just aleve, but I didn't have any pain and didn't have ANY pain meds whatsoever after leaving the hospital, which was the day after surgery.

I feel really bad for people that have a lot of pain with surgery - I'm very fortunate that i don't - everyone gets a different amount of pain and everyone handles pain differently. I'm kinda glad I wasn't given anything stronger - when I had surgery last time, I was given norco - I ended up turning that in to an expired prescription thingy at the hospital after it expired.

Taking aleve after surgery is not a great idea. It is an antiinflammatory and they are very hard on the stomach. I am on day 6. On day 4 I wanted to die and completely regretted having surgery. It is still a struggle, I am tired, sore, etc, but it is SOO much better in just the 2 days. I was given liquid lortab, hycosamine (Levsin), famotidine and zofran for nausea. The Levsin has been my friend. Helps the gas bubbles a lot!

OMG, I am so scared, I took the Alieve because the nurses told me to! I called my doctor today because of all my issues and told her what meds I was on and she said NO to alieve, what if I caused an ulcer!?!?!?! My gas pains are a lot better after the Milk of Magnesia.

It would typically take more time than just a few days with the aleve...but the nurse should NOT had told you to take it. I wish you a better tomorrow!

Although I thought the nurses were awesome at the time I am realizing they didn't know what was going on Thanks for your well wishes!!

Goodness, you are having such a rough recovery, I'm so sorry I can't believe the differences we all have in our recoveries, I hope you start feeling much better soon!

If you guys don't mind me asking what your starting bmi was? I am new to this and I'm ready to start my process for the Sleeve. I don't think my insurance will cover it but I just want to ask around to get an idea.