Is there a day when the pain should begin to get better. I'm three days post-op after a gastric sleeve on Monday and the burning pain across my left quadrant seems worse now than before they let me go home Tuesday?

Edited April 27, 20233 yr by sherrie918

It took me about a week, week and a half. My main issue was moving wrong and getting a sharp stabbing pain in my side and it took me a few days to learn how to sit up/lie down without aggravating it.

No hard & fast rule with pain. We heal differently, there are variations in our individual surgeries & our pain thresholds are different. Many seem not to need opiates to manage their pain by day 4 as the strong pain goes & only rely on over the counter pain meds if needed for the random bouts of discomfort or spasms on moving too far, too fast or certain body positions. Gas pain seems to persist the longest - sometimes into the second week but pain meds won’t help with that.

It does get better. All the best.