I had my sleeve done Wednesday morning (23rd). I had horrible pain the first day that gradually got better. I also had a hernia repaired. I'm scared of pushing too hard to get things in and cause a leak. I'm wondering if most of my pain is gas because u hurt just above my belly button. But i still have that horrible pain in center of chest when I swallow. So I'm getting in about 2 oz of some type of liquid every 1-2 hours. I know that's nowhere near close to 64 oz.....

Yes you are normal. I thought I was dying in so much pain. It was gas. I even slept sitting up because getting up and down was so painful. I even went back to emergency room I was hurting so much. Nothing wrong except gas. Plus I kept on with the pain meds which made it even worse. When I found out how bad the pain meds were I stopped immediately.

Yes, I've had to sleep sitting up on the couch too! It's really been a lot more painful than I anticipated . Maybe I should back off the pain meds to see if that helps with the gas. When is it normal to have a BM??

Took me over a week for BM. They said at ER that the pain meds can cause that. I was taking pain meds every four hours. That puts everything in slow motion. Take some children's Tylenol or Motrin. That's what I did. Threw that hydrocodone away!!!!

It really does get better. My pain eased up around day 7. I also backed off the pain meds and upped my gas-ex strips. They helped a lot with the gas pain. And WALK.

Ditto. Walk and lots of gas x.

Hallelujah for gas-x!!!