Please help Just got banded 3/19. I was given Lortab consistently while in hospital and sent home about 24 hrs after surg. They checked the band on video x-ray before I left and it was fine. I had a BM before leaving the hospital. They gave me Lortab Elixir which I took up to last night as needed and then I switched over to liquid Tylenol. I have only taken the Tylenol once (about 4 AM today) and haven't had anything for pain since. I continued to have a LOT of gas pains after leaving the hospital but this seems to have been significantly relieved since yesterday. I have been following the clear liquid instructions they gave me. On my first day home I drank 2 liters of Fluid that the discharge intern told me to take every day and I REALLY got terribly overfull and bloated by this. I'm wondering if he was wrong to tell me to do that. I have been drinking today but I'm not allowing myself to get that terribly uncomfortable feeling so I know I'm not doing 2 liters. Here is the current problem---I'm starting to get a REAL sense of tightness across the band area. Sometimes I can even feel a little burning. I'm wondering what is happening? Is my stomach bloating up?? Is this post-op obstruction? Or am I just feeling more because I'm not using anymore tylenol? I'm not running a temp or having anything problems. My feet do feel cold but it's cold outside. Should I be getting worried?

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My throat still feels that way but it's getting better. They have to stick a tube down your throat. I didn't have diareah but certainly ---- shall we say----liquid in is liquid out. And it was with a lot of gas/bloating so I felt pretty darn bad. They said to get in about 64 oz and the first/2nd day of that was just plain terrible.

One thing I have really noticed on this board is a vast diff in post-op stage diet. I have talked w/my MD about this. He is quite conservative about it. I'm only taking Clear Liquids and I will do that for 2 wks before moving to a conservative soft diet. He says --there are other ways of doing it that are also fine. It's just that a conservative diet will produce the fastest weight loss which is what I'm after----at least for the first few months. I am a researcher and also read all the medical studies that have been published in the last 5 years on gastric banding. I'm staying as conservative as I can on my diet because I want to do all that I can to avoid complications. I think tomato juice is really a nice idea providing it doesn't make you feel sick. I have read that it works very well for some and not for others. Try it.

Hi Kelda

It sounds like you need to get a bit of nourishment into your system now. I think some tomato soup would help - I had pretty similar symptoms and they all eased after some soup. I figure that this might be my bodies new way of saying it's hungry. I think that my hunger signals might have changed after the banding. Try to push yourself to take some nutrition on board - its a hard enough time to get through without starving yourself too.

Gordon