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So on march 21st 2016 i got sleeved and had a hernia repair...im curious how many of you got got one or not and how many took longer due to it...im on day 4 and i can certainly move better then i was...i still feel a pull in my belly...

The hardest is protien intake...fluids is not an issue...but anything Protein in it..like shakes etc and i have tried a few suck royally and im miserable... I know its gonna get better but that seems so far away from now....

Help...need encouragement!

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I had VSG+hiatal hernia repair in December, the first few days were rough but got better quickly. I am OK with the shakes but they're not my favorite.

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I was still on Clear Liquids. Once I progressed I found I needed to thin the shakes out initially.

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I had VSG + umbilical hernia repair.

Somewhere about 4-5 weeks out I began to feel much, much better with movement. I returned to work after 3 weeks.

All of the post-op pain I felt was strictly from the hernia repair and not the VSG.

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That gives me some encouragement... Knowing im not alone...i feel the tug on my belly...and moving is gettinf better but still get tired very easily which really sucks.

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I had VSG + umbilical hernia repair.

Somewhere about 4-5 weeks out I began to feel much, much better with movement. I returned to work after 3 weeks.

All of the post-op pain I felt was strictly from the hernia repair and not the VSG.

My next step will be umbilical repair surgery, hopefully I will not need to take off so much time. Any insight you can give me would be great. How bad was it? Did you simply have surgical repair or did they have to use mesh or exactly how did it go?

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I had VSG + umbilical hernia repair.

Somewhere about 4-5 weeks out I began to feel much, much better with movement. I returned to work after 3 weeks.

All of the post-op pain I felt was strictly from the hernia repair and not the VSG.

My next step will be umbilical repair surgery, hopefully I will not need to take off so much time. Any insight you can give me would be great. How bad was it? Did you simply have surgical repair or did they have to use mesh or exactly how did it go?

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I've had umbilical hernias surgically repaired with open surgery two times prior. They used mesh the second time. Recovery was in the 4-5 week time before I returned to work.

This past umbilical hernia repair was done as the same time as my VSG......and done using the same orthoscopic tools used for the VSG. Added a few minutes to the surgery and a couple more new holes.

The post-op for the hernia repair & VSG was way less than the prior open hernia repairs. I was back at work in 3 weeks.

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Thanks; if I may ask, why 3 repairs?

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They were over a ten year period.

Three different failures.

Gonna eventually do some core work and make my abs tight and strong.......after I get the current one repaired yet again......later this year.

My abs suck.

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