I guess my banding story is a little different than everybody elses regarding the anestesia part and going home. I didn't have problems with the tube in my throat and actually have no soreness with that at all. I explained to him about my huge tonsils and TMJ and he was super kind to my throat.. But, when I woke up, I started vomitting, or dry heaving I should say. since I have the weakest bladder in the world, I then peed all over myself. They tried to give me medicine to counteract that. Since I was still in and out of consciousness they had to wipe me up from me peeing on myself and let me tell you, that was embarrassing. I got wheeled into my room and again had another vomitting attack and peed all over myself again. This time I was able to go clean myself up and my husband helped me too. But now I was nauceous for a long time.. and they wouldn't even give me icechips until the nausea was gone.

Oh, but they did take me to xray and made me take 4 huge gulps of barium and the doc wanted to make sure the band was placed correctly and everything was alright. THat was the nastiest shit I've ever tasted in my life. Not exactly what you want when you are dying of thirst either... She let me swish my mouth out, but it didn't help much. Later the nurse told me that my doctor likes making sure the band was placed properly and that there is flow and so he does that xray thing, so I can totally understand that.

Finally at 4:30pm they let me have some juice and icechips and I haven't had a problem keeping any liquids down at all.

Walking hurts... I can lay on my right side and i'm fine, because most of my holes are on the left side... and I'm belching A LOT and I mean.. my husband told me that I have beat the best belches he's ever had. LOL. I've been trying to walk a lot, but it does hurt and coughing and laughing obviously hurt too. My tummy looks odd.. mishapen, probably cuz of the gas in there.

But, my doctor called me at home last night to check on me, but I was asleep and then he just called me just now to tell me how I looked in there, which, well, wasn't great. He said I had in the top 5 biggest livers he's ever seen. He said on a scale of 1-10 and ten being the biggest I had an "8".. WHAT??? lol. I couldn't believe it. I had followed this diet and lost like 9 pounds and just thought it would have shrunk more.. he said it wasn't slippery, it was just big.. he said i'm just a big girl. HA HA. But, he said everything else looked good like my gall bladder and no hiatal hernia, etc.

Right now if I drink too much, which I would say about 1/2 cup I start getting nauseaous.. so, you definitely don't want to have more than that.

And, try the Propel invigorating Water. It doesn't have as much sugars and carbs as other drinks like this, and it's not as sweet as juices seem to be. Its the only thing I can really stomach right now except water.

I'm jealous about the belching. I needed and wanted to belch so badly the first few days after surgery. I still am not belching much, which at this point I guess I'm grateful for. My gas out the other end hasn't been much either, in fact it's much less than pre-banding. My family is probably grateful for that! LOL

Sorry to hear about the complications you had, but I'm glad you're doing so well. Welcome to this side of Bandland.

Crystal, so glad the throwing up is done. Hope you are feeling better, that must have hurt. I had a catheter in to prevent the peeing part, didn't want it but now i'm glad i did since I was in and out till for a while. they took it out about 3 hours after when it was safe. lol

I haven't burped once and I'm on day 6. the first couple days i chewed gas x for just incase of case since my daughter was staying with me and I didn't want to scare her out of the hospital room. lol

Welcome to the band side!

Jeanie

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Thanks so much everybody for the well wishes!

I'm 4 days out and doing so much better. My port area hurts, and oddly, on one side of my port it's completely numb.. not sure why.. but the belching is going down a tad bit, which is nice and I'm getting all my liquids and protein in, which makes me very happy! It's funny, I keep looking at my belly and the steri strips.. lol. Don't know why. I wish I could take them off and see how bad the scars will be... but, I have to keep them on for like 2 weeks I think. The nasty medicine smell is finally gone from my belly.. ICK. I've been walking around like crazy, so I think that's helping me out.... WOOHOO.. things are looking up for all of us it seems!!