Ok, I'm 12 days post op. My pain is pretty controlled and ok, except for that one lower right spot, maybe you all know THE spot. The place they pull out that old stomach lol! So the pain is ok until six o'clock pm on and is brutal getting into bed that I literally cry out and cry. I really don't think I'm overdoing it, I'm puttering around only maybe an hour total a day and I'm not driving because it still hurts to drive and I got really sick today (woozy, nauseous) when attempting to drive 15 miles into "the big city". So I guess I'm asking if anyone has any ideas of any pain relief other than Tylenol (already doing that) and I'm not taking and out of my heavy duty pain killers and don't want those. I can't find anything useful on Google. Thanks!

Try warm, moist heat. Use a heating pad with a moist cloth underneath on the area creating pain.

2 hours ago, Losingit2018 said:

Try warm, moist heat. Use a heating pad with a moist cloth underneath on the area creating pain.

I have been using a heating pad, not with moist heat though because the steri-strips came off that incision (like they were supposed to) but part of the wound looks/..icky to me, its healing but I don't want the scabby part to open it's weird looking. Luckily my sister and my aunt and other aunt and best friend are all nurses, they said the wound isn't infected or anything, just to be careful of it but at this stage no bandage. Sooo..a heat yes, but not moist as of yet. See the surgeon Tuesday, but the pain is really nasty at night

I had a seroma in my right incision. The surgeon told me that incision is the one that people have the most problems with because it is stretched very wide in order to removed the stomach.

If you did not have a drain and have any hardness around the incision, take my advice and use moist heat. My pain was off the charts at night when I had a seroma and this is what worked. A seroma looks nasty but is not an infection.

As far as other pain medication options, I take paracetemol 500mg and codeine 30mg when I get severe headaches and menstrual cramping, which I now need my doctors prescription for (used to be over-the-counter for lower dose codeine tablets in Australia). Given that we can't take ibuprofen post surgery I'm glad that paracetemol/codeine is still ok (according to my surgeons instructions).

I hope the incision pain goes away soon for you!