Help needed!

[Ophelia Wilde 4]

Hi all, i hope you are all doing well!! I’m 11 days post gastric sleeve. Everything was going fine until today when I’ve been struggling with extreme pain around my main incision. My tummy around it seems to be very sensitive to the touch & swollen, although the wound itself looks fine. I’ve reduced my painkillers to half today which I’m thinking might be the problem. I’m wondering is it normal to have such extreme pain 11 days out around the main incision? And whether the painkillers have just been really masking it to now? any hell would be much appreciated! Thanks all, Ophelia.

[Russ D 115]

Have you increased your activity recently? At 12 days I was back to work, and I was very sore as I transitioned back into it.

[Ophelia Wilde 4]

Hi Russ, I did increase my activity on Saturday. However I’m wondering if I may have pulled an internal stitch as it’s now sore when I eat as well as move which it wasn’t before.

[MargoCL 677]

I would contact your surgeon. I was off pain meds as soon as I left the hospital and returned to work 1 week later. I had some sharp pains between incision points but it went away relatively quickly (within 2-3 days after I spoke with my surgeon)

[Ophelia Wilde 4]

Thanks Margo. I just spoke to my surgeon and she thinks I pulled internal stitches too. Nothing too serious thankfully - it just means a week of more pain & lots more painkillers.

[Matt Z 4,138]

On 10/7/2018 at 3:17 PM, Ophelia Wilde said:

Hi all, i hope you are all doing well!! I’m 11 days post gastric sleeve. Everything was going fine until today when I’ve been struggling with extreme pain around my main incision. My tummy around it seems to be very sensitive to the touch & swollen, although the wound itself looks fine. I’ve reduced my painkillers to half today which I’m thinking might be the problem. I’m wondering is it normal to have such extreme pain 11 days out around the main incision? And whether the painkillers have just been really masking it to now? any hell would be much appreciated! Thanks all, Ophelia.

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