recovery?

vanilla_bubble4 · May 23, 2008

just wondering how it went and what your recovery was like?

i stuck to my Optifast diet 95% of the time, and the operation went fine, however I am having problems with pain management and was re-admitted the day after i was discharged from hospital because of this.

this is day 5 since the operation and the pain and the port site is still very bad.

i am on 3 anti-inflammatory tablets, 2 indigestion tablets, 2 other tablets (which i have no idea what they are for) daily and digesic (strong?) pain killers every 4hours... and the pain is still there.

getting in and out of bed, trying to stand, standing for more than a few minutes at a time, laughing, coughing, raising my voice.. i could cry from the pain!

is this normal?

how long did it take you to get over the pain?

did you find anything that worked for you?

vanilla_bubble4 · May 23, 2008

Yes they did CT scans and X-Rays and couldnt find anything wrong internally, and i didnt have a temperature or wasnt sick otherwise so it wasnt an infection, so they put it down to swelling. I am on anti-inflammatories for that... they have helped over the past few days, but the pain is still very significant. I am having a check-up with my surgeon in a weeks time. will let you know how it goes!

aquasky13 · May 24, 2008

is this the very first time you have had a op.. maybe your pain tolerance is very low...

Fanny Adams · May 24, 2008

Sorry to hear that it's been so hard on you. Hopefully the worst is over now and you can move on to your new life.

emmaf106 · May 26, 2008

I guess everyone's pain is relative to their own experiences. My partner and I were banded at the same time - he had very little pain but I was in agony for the 1st week. Extreme shoulder pain. I made sure I took the pain meds and started to walk around (hunched over) and that did start to elliviate the shoulder pain. By week 2 I was feeling a heap better. Hopefully you will too.

Luscious · May 26, 2008

I have a very high pain tolerance level, but I also found getting in and out of bed, standing up, and moving around generally very painful at the port site. I had VERY bad bruising. I guess everyone is different. As I said, I have high tolerance for pain, so I just kinda sucked it up and accepted it as what I needed to go through for the greater good. It lasted about 1 week. I was able to stop prescribed pain killers after about 5-6 days.

MsCamilla · May 27, 2008

i was banded on the 21st May and the nurses offfered me no pain killers at all. On the second day in hospital they gave me kids pain stop twice but told me not to tell my doctor? I was out on day three and have me up and about since then but in pain in the left side. I have had numerous opertations but this hurt the most in recovery (maybe due to no pain relief this time!!) Tomorrow will be 1 week since op and i feel that i should be up to start my walking tomorrow. Sorry to hear your suffering. Maybe you can help me, were you told to but anything on your scars?