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Jennifer77    0

Jennifer77
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Hello and Good Morning to all

It's 1:00am the day after my procedure, and I hurt. I have been taking my pain medications every 4 hours and they make a wonderful dent allow me to just sleep through the pain. Sadly, it's 1am and I now hurt so badly when I lay down. While searching through these posts I have seen a lot of people recommend recliners. Sadly I don't have one in my tiny apartment. Any other suggestions so I can sleep relatively pain free?

Thanks,

Jennifer

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jegtlf    0

jegtlf
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Pillows! I propped myself up on pillows and moved as little as possible! It will get better! Congrats on your band!

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deepinfl
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Hello and Good Morning to all

It's 1:00am the day after my procedure, and I hurt. I have been taking my pain medications every 4 hours and they make a wonderful dent allow me to just sleep through the pain. Sadly, it's 1am and I now hurt so badly when I lay down. While searching through these posts I have seen a lot of people recommend recliners. Sadly I don't have one in my tiny apartment. Any other suggestions so I can sleep relatively pain free?

Thanks,

Jennifer

Jennifer..hang in there. I had my band on February 18. I have had several surgeries before with no problems, but wow! I got an infection around the port and the first 2 weeks were agony. But, you know what? I would do it ALL again because it is now about 10 weeks out and I have lost 52 pounds and I feel better than I have since I was MUCH younger (I'm 55). It is a decision I do not regret. Use that stomach pillow and hug it tight..for no matter what, you will get over the pain soon and you will be so AWESOME!!! Take care and good luck for the future!!! Denise

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jet    0

jet
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wow youre brave. i was still in hospital for 2 days and 2 nights after mine, then in bed for two days straight at home after that sleeping sleeping sleeping, too weak to even think abotu computers.

im at day five and wanting this alien otu of me, and wanting someone to make me a nice home cooked roast dinenr with all the trimmings. dont know if ive lost any weight as i have no scales. good news is that today my pain reduced to managemeable. only on paracetemol instead of the morphine which has kept me going so far. good luck to you.

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I Jennifer and welcome to LBT! Sounds like you are doing pretty good overall. Hope the pain will ease up soon and make it easier for you to sleep. The only suggestion I can give is the same as someone else - PILLOWS!! Good luck to you and keep us posted on your progress.

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i am scheduled for my surgery tomorrow. i am excited but not looking for the pain. i guess it will be hear for me because i like to sleep on my stomach. but it will be worth it in the end.

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Congratulations Jen! I'm sorry to hear that you are feeling bad. Are you having gas pains or are you just sore from the surgery. I don't really know what to tell you as I only experienced the gas pains and they weren't that bad, I simply walked around a lot and kept a heating pad on it when I layed down which I was told helped me to escape the pain. As for pain meds I didn't use any of those but the Doctor told me to buy liquid Tylenol just in case and I was able to find that at CVS Pharmacy. I'm sure everything will be okay, just remember the good (band/weight loss) will out weigh the bad (pain). Keep us posted on your progress.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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