Hi everyone, I'm considering the surgery but I'm in the process of building a house right now (we are doing a lot of the work ourselves) and was wondering how bad you feel right after the surgery. I will be self pay. I've been researching since about last July. My mom recently (Nov 9 2007) had the bypass done, (I would never consider it).

had mine yesterday. today it feels like I tried to do 500 situps

the main thing my doc told me was not to lift anything over 25 pounds for the first 4 weeks.

I had my srgry on 12-28 and didn't have much pain at all and luckily no gas pain I walked like every hour around my house for a few min. bulding a house is a lot of work and your energy level will propably be down for about a week or more take it easy and I don't think your suppose to do any heavy lifting for about 2 weks my doc said no more then 10lbs.

i had my surgery just 2 days ago on January 23. I am feeling pretty good and really only have pain when I go from sitting to standing or vice versa. I think that you will have to stay away from house building for awhile after your surgery (hehe) as with any operation. All the best to you. I'm so happy that I finally had my surgery!!

Regards,

Alfie

Hi everyone, I'm considering the surgery but I'm in the process of building a house right now (we are doing a lot of the work ourselves) and was wondering how bad you feel right after the surgery. I will be self pay. I've been researching since about last July. My mom recently (Nov 9 2007) had the bypass done, (I would never consider it).

You won't feel too great for about the first 3 days. After that it's not too bad. You still won't be able to run any marathons but as long as you take it relatively easy you should be OK. When I had mine done I had to be especially careful about bending over and twisting at the waist as I could feel the pull in my muscles where the port is attached. Good Luck!