My surgery was March 18th at 8:00 in the morning. I have had problems swallowing from the beginning since surgery. Will this change? I swallow it goes about halfway down then gets stuck and I have a lot of pain and then it goes down the rest of the way and then the pain goes away.

Yes it will get better. It’s just swelling from the surgery. I had trouble too for the first couple of days & had a lot of saliva (carried a sick bag with me to spit in - not nice). My back actually went into spasm because I became tense whenever I tried to sip or swallow because of the pain. I was fine by day 3or 4.

Congrats on your surgery.

This is s great question that I was wondering about myself. My surgery was May 18th, just yesterday. Swallowing is HARD.

Swallowing can be difficult for a few reasons after surgery and it depends on where the swallowing hurts. If it’s in the actual swallowing process it’s most likely irritation from the intubation for anesthesia or the insertion of scopes to check the new pouch/sleeve.

If you also had hernia repair and you’re pain is after in your lower chest it’s likely from the suturing and inflammation swelling around the site.

If it’s below your breastbone it’s likely swelling from the actual restructuring of your stomach and as @Arabesque said it should subside within a week or so.

Just remember to take it slow and you’ll get through it.

On 3/20/2021 at 8:41 PM, Arabesque said:

Yes it will get better. It’s just swelling from the surgery. I had trouble too for the first couple of days & had a lot of saliva (carried a sick bag with me to spit in - not nice). My back actually went into spasm because I became tense whenever I tried to sip or swallow because of the pain. I was fine by day 3or 4.

Congrats on your surgery.

Mine got better after about a week. I'm 9 weeks out and doing GREAT! Occasionally I have a little swollowing issue and I just need to slow it down and relax.