Hi all. I had a gastric sleeve this past Monday 3/15 and have had a pretty uneventful recovery. My biggest complaint is how sore my largest incision is. If I twist, get up, or bend wrong, it feels like my incision is tearing open. I do wear a girdle almost all the time and when I am not wearing it I am icing that incision. I have absolutely no pain in any of my other incisions. In fact, the others are starting to itch. I stopped taking the dilaudid that was prescribed to me because I didn’t like how it made me feel loopy all day long and I’ve been using Tylenol is frequently as is safe. I can’t even sleep in my bed because of this dang incision, I have better luck sleeping in a reclining chair.

Can anyone share their experiences regarding this? I think I’ll feel 100 times better once this incision starts healing. I’m keeping liquids down pretty well and getting up and moving, but the nagging of this incision is driving me crazy.

Thanks in advance

Yea every doctors are different. Just started purée today and felt like heaven, my nausea is finally gone.

Since that’s the incision where our stomach was taken out of , it’s more tender. But I’ve noticed the more walking I do the less soreness or pain I feel, although not completely gone.

I'm 7 weeks out, the big incision still sore as it heals. I usually take Tylenol if is night time. When it happens on day time I lay flat or stand up, I'm fortunate to have a stand-up desk now that I'm working from home, it helps to ease the discomfort.

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I’m 9 days out and really struggling with pain. I had an incident with TMI pooping today and now my stomach is in so much pain it feels like every move I make I might pass out from pain.

I also had a lot of pain in the main incision above my belly button- that is where they remove the unneeded stomach and do most of the movement during the surgery. I ended up getting a hematoma. I was fine until 12 days after the surgery my incision opened slightly and lots of old blood starting coming out - it didn’t stop bleeding for over a week. Now my incision is fine and healing well. Sorry if too much TMI but I had no idea that it could happen but I guess it does occur. If the pain gets to be too much - contact your doctor to make sure all is well. Best of luck!

Just to give an idea of the hematoma

I wouldn’t worry too much, yours look better than mine do as long as they’re not opening or bleeding or pussing they’re healing from the inside

Ive heard ( havent hd my surgery yet) that the incision that hurts the most is the one they removed the stomach from. Perhaps thats why its the worst ??‍♀️ . Good luck with. your journey

Same! The right sided one where they pulled out my stomach hurt the most. My surgeon said that incision is, I don’t recall if he said sutured or stapled, but abdominal wall requires closure to avoid a hernia. Even 3 weeks post if I twisted a certain way I would feel a sharp pain. The abdominal binder helped a lot, I slept in a recliner chair because I couldn’t bend enough to get in/out of bed. I set my watch alarm for every 6 hours to remind me to take Tylenol in a timely manner for 3 days. My surgery was 3/17–no pain now for weeks. Just wish I would have had surgery sooner because I feel so good now!! Hang in there.