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Questions about surgery

My date isn't nailed down yet but we are looking at the second week of May. I've been reading on here and now I have some questions.

Is my long thick beautiful hair going to fall out?

People have mentioned drainage tubes? Is this standard?

Vomiting and severe gas pain?

I'm starting to feel VERY nervous.

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      Is my long thick beautiful hair going to fall out? Probably some of it, but only enough that you notice, not anyone else. People have mentioned drainage tubes? Is this standard? I would guess it's

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    I had my sleeve 2 weeks ago tomorrow. I had minimal gas pains, but what I had easily passed (belching) when I got up and walked around. I had a drain, but only because there was a tear during surgery.

    I had minimal incision pain. It wasn't bad and easily controlled with medicine. The worst pain was taking out the drain, but it only hurt for 5 minutes and was sore for about a day. I never had any nausea or vomiting. The only pain I had was when I tried to drink my clear liquid diet in the hospital. I realized that cold fluids hurt worse than warm fluids and we found a combination of anti-gas, pain and nausea med (even though I did not have nausea) that helped me with that pain.

    I have had previous surgeries and this is the easiest I ever had. I had surgery on Wednesday and back to work on Monday without any problem.

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