Pain following surgery

[IndioGirl55 32]

i am 2 week out today - i still have some port site pain and will get gas pains when i eat - i can eat the thicker the fast if fill up the thiner the slower i fill up... I eat 1/2 to 3/4 cup of oatmeal in the morning and 1/2 cup refried Beans for lunch (I am on mushys whoopee) - i can sleep on my stomach as long as i am on a soft surface. It hurts to wear pants that cut you in the waist.

[Sybaritic01 0]

Don't fear.....everyone is different. I had my surgery yesterday and I feel great! I'm recovering at home and taking it easy.....I went on several short walks to get rid of the gas feeling......really....I do feel fine....and my port area is jsut a little tender.....not painful at all.......GO for it!

[DonHoll1 0]

Hi! I had my surgery the 27th and i feel really good. A little pain at the port if i try to sleep on that side, but nothing bad. I an soooo glad i got my band. Dr. Zapata in Mexico was wonderful. Donna

[shannon9227 0]

hi all i had my surgery @ 9am rhis morning..i am home now, but i am having the WORST shoulder gas pain, can i releive this in anyway/? my sites do not hurt, although my stomach feels like a ball of steele, i am walking, moving, turning but this gas pain is very painful, any suggestions? should i take some pepto?

Please help~

[shannon9227 0]

hi all i had my surgery @ 9 am this morning//@ home now, up walking. sites dont hurt. BUT OMG!!!!! This shoulder gas pain is horrible, please tell me someone has an answer for me! my stomach feels ok, like a bag of steele.can i do anything for this shoulder thing? please help!

[Sybaritic01 0]

I keep taking short walks and it really helps to move the gas out of the shoulders.....keep walking.....

[gingersnap 11]

I'm one week post op and in addition to walking try a heating pad, I slept with mine on my shoulder for the first 5 days, it really helps!

Congratulations on taking the jump! In just a few days you will be feeling great!

[Helen 1]

The port pain will go, I sleep on my front and have found trying to sleep on my back hard. I sleep on my front now.

No pain no gain. I will be honest that when I wake and try to roll on my back on my front I get a little pull but nothing bad, it just lets me know it is there, not painfull at all.

I also found lying with a pillow supporting my belly has helped loads, even after my op when I needed to cough, I was so scared I would rip, my sister who is a nurse told me to hold a pillow on my belly stand up, lean over and cough, it was great I could get all the tar off my chest and it didnt hurt at all.

with the wind pain, I walked around a lot, I had to take a rest every now and then as I would get light headed but I just pushed on through, I done a 24 hr walk for cancer 9 days after my op so this helped!! ( team of 15 taking it in turns to walk)

it will go so dont worry you will be fine.:kiss2:

[azmensan 1]

I had similar pain, but it wased after about a month. I'm now 3-1/2 months post op and I still have pain if I touch that area. But I can live with it.

[aluckygem 0]

I had no pain at all. It is tender yes when I turn over in bed. I came right from the recovery room and got up into a chair . This was so easy for me. Now if it works for me and I lose weight that to will be a good thng. I was banded 8-2-07 so I do not know how I am doing yet and I refuse to get on a scale at home.

[TrimKim 0]

Guys...trust me...this too shall pass. A large amount of this is attitude. Think of it this way...short of Plastic Surgery, what other kind of medical intervention could you possibly have that will turn your life around the way this is going to? You know the old adage "Beauty knows no pain." Well, it's true. It'd be different if you were sitting there with stitches after having a ruptured appendix out or something...you have nothing to show for it all except not being "sick" anymore.... this is the exact opposite! When I was banded on 05-23, I couldn't WAIT to get to the hospital, couldn't WAIT to get my IV, get put under, come out in recovery, go back to my room, walk....etc. the entire time thinking "My God, my whole life is fixing to do a 180 degree change and I need to relish every minute of this process!"

Kacee, I LOVE IT! Your attitude is the one I aspire to have when I'm banded! I expect that there will be many trials, victories and disappointments throughout this journey and I have never been more ready got anything in my life! Yes, "This too will pass" gets me thru just about everything. Bring it and and let's get this party started!:whoo:

[Darragha 0]

I recall after I had a c-section that I had terrible pain in the area of my big belly where the skin was lifted and opened like a box lid. It hurt for weeks in that one spot, and 15 years later, if I move the wrong way, I still feel a "painful pull." Ligaments, tissues, muscle--all of it gets moved around and bruised during surgeries. It takes time to heal--and then like my funky "phantom pain" it may never really goes away. That's surgery.

[munchkincan 0]

Good for you kacee. So, how do you feel about the lap band now and what you are having to do to adjust to it?

[munchkincan 0]

Hi Shannon..I know just what you are feeling. Like maybe you have a brick in the pit of your stomach just under your diaphram. That's just the band and it will get better I promise. So will the shoulder pain. I had my surgery on Aug 1 (one week tomorrow) and the brick gets a little smaller each day. My shoulder pain started the evening of the second day and today was the first day that I didn't have any pain in my shoulder at all. Everyone says walking helps the shoulder. For me it way lying down. That seemed to me the only thing that stopped the pain. Hang in there it will get better.

[Miss Molly 0]

Breezyrn70-I read your post and are wondering how you are feeling now that you're a few more days post op. My surgery is in 2 1/2 weeks and I hadn't thought about the port site as a problem. Do you regret your surgery? I've also noticed you're not the only one reporting this problem. It makes me a bit nervous.