I've had a couple of coughing fits today. It feels like I've busted a gut or God forbid popped a staple. I tried so hard to cough. It seems like that makes it much worse. I had a pillow on my abdomin but, I'm scared I may have caused damage. I'm sucking on SF cough drops now.

Anyone else have this problem?

i coughed a little bit it was ery uncomfortable and scared me, i took some mucinex when i got home and fekt better

I think my cough was more of a dry irritated cough. I even think the brusinig looks worse on one of my incisions. Maybe it's just my head messing with me. I hope so.

my throat was super irritated after sugery, it was hard to talk

I'm sure you are fine. I hear you will know if you ripped a staple and contents from stomach are floating around abdomen. You get real real sick and have fever.

Ps you talk about your throat. Mine still hurts bad more like my esophagus though. I actually have a large bump. Still painful. They must have scraped it good! Dr said he never saw that reaction before. Hurts to take deep breaths and swallow. Ouch. I'm 10 days out too.

Ouch Punky. I'm sorry to hear that. I was having severe acid reflux since last night I'm sure it probably caused the acid-y irritation in my throat.

I was lucky not to have any throat irritation. so sorry to hear you guys are still experiencing some throat soreness... hang in there

Coughing again. Oh mother, this might be the worst part of the surgery yet. Hurts like hades! I hope there's no damage.

I developed a bad cold the day before I started my pre op diet. By the day of surgery only the cough was left. I think the cough got worse after the surgery and I had to go to my family dr for a rx for the cough. I took it for about a week before the cough went away. I know what you're talking about! It's almost torture! I felt like I busted staples also and told the dr this. He said I was using muscles to cough with and that's what was hurting. Specifically my lower left side. I have not coughed since Friday. I bought some of those heat patches and spent the weekend in bed with the patches and I feel much better. Not 100% but much better. The pain was so bad Friday I could not bend to touch my toes. Today I can.

I coughed alot to and brought up some mucus the Anesthesiologist said that would happen after surgery just didn't expect it to be so long. It lasted about 4 days and when I felt like it was gonna hurt I hit my albutorol inhaler I use during flu season.