I'm two days post-op and its hard to believe I just had major surgery. My symptoms are minimal. Tight after surgery, in the hospitals recovery area, patients are asked to walk every two hours and this includes overnight. I had a lot of gas and I truly believe the walking helped resolve this. Although I still have gas it seems very manageable with gas-x. For pain, I was prescribed Percocet which helped relieve any pain I'm supposed to be feeling.

Yay!!!

So happy for you - keep us posted.

Welcome to your new life... enjoy

3 days after surgery I went to grocery store and then shopping couple days later. Easiest surgery ever, but scary of the unknown. 4 months later, ahhhhhhh! Joyful!

I'm hoping I feel as good as you tomorrow when I'm 2 days post op.

Congrats! I was one of the lucky ones as well. The main thing I feared was nausea because I HATE to throw up, but I didn't have a minute's worth. I didn't even take my pain medicine. I honestly feel that I could have gone back to work in a couple of days, but I went ahead and used up some of my sick leave.

Thanks everyone. I am now 11 days out and I can definitely say, I am feeling very normal. Probably my real challenge is learning how to eat all over again and I mean this by saying taking small chews instead of big ones as well as small gulps instead of guzzling down my liquids, I'm confident I will learn, afterall I gave up a lot to be able to reach my goal.

Same here jluv. I'm 16 days out and amazed how little pain was involved. Creating new eating and drinking habits are a bit of a challenge.