I have read people getting a "drain", does everyone get a "drain"

[Scottyd1264 73]

I have read people getting a "drain", does everyone get a "drain", if yes for how long ?

[Sharon1964 2,530]

My surgeon rarely does drains. It was one of the things I asked him at my preop appointment. Ask your surgeon.

[M!@ 320]

It depends on the surgeon. I had a drain for 2 days. It was removed before I went home.

[animallover1247 249]

Not every surgeon uses a drain. However, mine does and he said it would be there for one week. In researching this last night, I discovered even if a drain is used that doesn't mean a leak cant occur in a different part of the stomach and the drain would not pick the leak up so that doesnt make me feel all that great. I will be asking my surgeon about this.

[liannatx 897]

No drain here.

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

Nope. No drain here.

My surgeon glued all my incisions. Sixteen months later I can find only two of my incisions, and I expect they'll disappear soon.

[bigbit 99]

No drain here...

[Miss Mac 6,261]

No drain for me.

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

I didn't.

But, I did have this interesting ball of numbing agent that was wired into me and hung from my neck.

[_Kate_ 2,224]

Not for me.

[AvaFern 3,516]

I had a drain. Whether you have one or not really doesn't make a huge difference one way or the other. The drain is almost always removed before you leave the hospital and it is only used to help drain out any residual Fluid that accumulates in your abdomen, which give you basically cut out your stomach, is a lot of Fluid that reacts to what your body sees as trauma. I had drains for all 3 of my plastics procedures too. It is basically just a negative pressure suction ball...the tube is in your abdomen, the ball is on the outside, and before the suction ball is closed, you squeeze it so that the pressure pulls out the extra fluid. Removing the drain is as simply as cutting the suture and pulling the tube out.

So, don't be worried about whether you have a drain or not...you won't notice it much, the nurses will take it out for you, and it's not a complicated device at all.

[JupiterinVirgo 846]

Nope. My surgeon didn't use them.

[cricket82 25]

I had my surgery Friday and had no drain.

[wwboy 141]

My surgeon rarely does drains. It was one of the things I asked him at my preop appointment. Ask your surgeon.

Same for me. My surgeon says he still sometimes has to use them for bypass patients but almost never for his sleeve patients.

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[The Candidate 3,215]

I had bypass and my surgeon always does drains with bypass. But he doesn't use them with sleeve patients. Honestly I felt better upfront knowing I was going to have a drain. Better safe than sorry. But everyone is different.