I am 7 days out and almost out of pain medication, I see my doc today. I feel like I still need it, the pain is definately better but like at the end of the day (I have already returned to work) I am dying! I take tylenol during the day, so I am not a complete zombie at work, and that is just a joke.

Am I being a weinie? How long did you take your perscription pain medication?

I would say call your Dr. If you need more.

I was one of the lucky ones, I had a shot for pain shortly after surgery, but from then on nothing was needed. I took a dose of Tylenol for the flight and drive home, but nothing was extremely painful for me.

Sorry you are having a rougher time!!! It will get better!!!

Kat

Everybody is different. I didn't take any of my pain meds - not even at the Hospital. But the surgery hits people very different. I would tell your Dr. and see what he says. I found that walking around (slowly) helped me a lot. Every now and again, I have to take Tylenol at night because I have overdone it during the day. I am 9 days out.

Got my band on 2/25, and am hanging around the house fine without pain meds for the past day or so, but I CANNOT LAUGH. It kills me right around the port area/side:scared2:. It is the most painful thing I have experienced...... Can anyone tell me about when that pain goes away??

Wow, I can;t believe you guys did not need your pain meds, I was in agony for 3 days. My belly is also every color of the rainbow which I don;t think is the norm, apparently the stitcher upper was pretty rough with me. I feel 100% better today and my doc said I can take motrin so that should help.

Thanks Everyone!!

PS 6 days post op and lost 5 lbs!!!

Don't feel bad. I have a low pain tolerance and took mine for almost 2 weeks. I swicthed from Percocet (which is stronger for me) to Vicodin after a week. Then I accidentally pulled some stitches in my port lifting something, so they gave me more Percocet.

However, I am very non-sensitive to pain meds due to long term use from a back injury. So I have to take a horse-sized dose to feel anything.

Actually, I was using the drugs more to prevent the pain from ever starting than cure it once it started. I feel that I healed better because of this.

Did anyone have a medicine pump after surgery? I had one that was distributing a local anesthetic to the wound site thru a small tube into the skin. Worked great for me. I have a pretty high tolerance for pain, but this was great. I never really felt anything more than discomfort. I acidently pulled the tube out of my skin on day 3. That bothered me more than anything else. Also I have yet to use any of the prescribed pain meds (Loratab) given to me for post surgery.

Not me, when they wheeled me from recovery, I asked to go to the bathroom - they unhooked my IV and that was that - but a pump sounds pretty cool.

I took it around the clock for the first few days and stopped after about a week.