i feel ridiculous asking this, but the band has made me uber paranoid about normal bodily functions...

i've been suffering from some allergies the past 2 days and have been sneezing up a storm. now, that's annoying on the best of days, but can that slip the band? it hurts my incisions, but i can live with that...

am i totally ridiculous or what?! :tired

I have horrid allergies through the summer when the corn is tasseling, and when we cut hay---and sneezed like crazy---never hurt me. I had a couple of months to heal, prior to my attacks---but it is nothing for me to sneeze 20 times, one right after the other!! Gives me a helluva headache, but not problems with my port or band.

Kat

ps....God Bless You!!

I have been sneezing and coughing a lot since surgery too. I was wondered about the same thing. I have been blowing my nose a lot too.

I was wondering about that also. I was made to cough in the hospital so it can not be all that bad for you. It just hurt real bad but that has even passed for me. I only have some burning in the port area every now and then when I have did to much.

well i'm so glad i'm not that only one! i felt like such a goober... worried about SNEEZING.

kat... LOL. thanks!

The sneezing doesn't bother me, it's all that tooting that happens when I least expect it, hehehe.

The sneezing is the worst for me! I actually hurt near my belly button and I have no incisions near it. It radiates from my belly button to my port incision so I don't know if it's the same muscle my port is stitched to or what. I try hard not to sneeze. It's a sharp burning feeling for several seconds. I am on day six post-op. I am on a liquid diet for FOUR FREAKIN WEEKS! I can have soup right now and my nurse suggestion egg flour soup (w/o chunks of stuff). I'm really craving food. I have my brother in town for a few days and he is eating up a storm. He's cooking pizza and lasanga and drinking soda. JERK! I smell it and start craving food! I'm not super hungry but having heavy cravings! I don't regret the surgery at all but regret not being able to have the foods I wants right now. I am carving carbs...Pad Thai and Quiznos bad!!!!!

I am certainly not a doctor but I think that sneezing won't be a problem. I had surgery in November and got a cold a couple weeks after, coughing and sneezing all the time. I think it is VERY normal to question things like this...boy I did. I thought at least once a day that I had slipped mine, but all was fine. I am sure that you will be too. God Bless!