I am 2 days post op... Trying to get my liquids in. My chest feels so tight and I'm sipping so slow. This is miserable... Pretty grateful that most of the gas pains are gone though.

Yes. It's gonna get easier. I'm 8 days post op. Getting more than my required liquids in. As the swelling goes down in ur sleeve u will find it much easier to sip sip sip and the air bubble feeling in ur chest won't be so dramatic. I'm already finding myself forgetting to sip and taking regular sized swallows. Hang in there! I promise it will get better soon!

Yes. It's gonna get easier. I'm 8 days post op. Getting more than my required liquids in. As the swelling goes down in ur sleeve u will find it much easier to sip sip sip and the air bubble feeling in ur chest won't be so dramatic. I'm already finding myself forgetting to sip and taking regular sized swallows. Hang in there! I promise it will get better soon!

Yes. It's gonna get easier. I'm 8 days post op. Getting more than my required liquids in. As the swelling goes down in ur sleeve u will find it much easier to sip sip sip and the air bubble feeling in ur chest won't be so dramatic. I'm already finding myself forgetting to sip and taking regular sized swallows. Hang in there! I promise it will get better soon!

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I'm a little over 6 months out and I promise it gets easier. I remember being where you are and feeling miserable. Today I don't even remember I have the sleeve half the time. I just go on with my normal daily routine and life is wonderful

The beginning it is so important to focus on you. Getting your fluids in, getting your Protein in, getting enough rest and enough walking. Once you have hit a few weeks out these things will be like a second nature to you and you won't have to think about them anymore

Good Luck and welcome to the losers side

It gets easier and easier... At four months out it becomes fun, because for the first time in many years, it feels doable. Now, it appears that success, rather than failure is happening daily.

The worst is over. A year from now you will wonder where the time went.

Thank you guys. This reassurance is the only thing keeping me going.

Never had any gas pains. Sipping will last weeks to months. I think about 5 months out I could drink relatively normally.

The gas pains are pretty much gone. It's more of the discomfort when I drink that is really challanging for me now.

My discomfort while drinking lasted about 2 weeks. Once the internal swelling went down, it became much easier. Every single tiny sip set off this whole chain of events.. .a constriction in my esophagus and painful spasms, then like a gurgling in the back of my throat, and then ultimately usually a burp. No matter how tiny the sip, it happened every single time. But it got much much better. At 2 days post-op, you are right at the worst of it. I was crying a lot in those first 4 days or so, wondering what in the world I'd done to myself and wondering if I would ever feel "normal" again. You will!

It will get better! Your stomach is still swollen. I'm 12 days post-op and I can sip normally now as long as I don't take huge sips. My discomfort while drinking ended when I was a week post-op. Hang in there.

Thanks guys ????

I can reiterate what the others have said. Every day will get a little bit better and you will soon arrive at your "new normal." I know it is hard at first....way more difficult emotionally than I expected.... But just keep going! You will get through!