Well, I was successfully banded 8/18/08 at 7:30am and was home by 11:30am. The doctors said that they have never seen anybody come out of the anethesia grinning....lol. So far, I have had minimal pain and haven't even had to take any meds (they give me liquid hydrocodone). The only thing i seem to be having a problem with is keeping myself hydrated...i've had water, crystal light and propel and nothing is appealing to me for some reason. Anyways....let the shrinking begin! Thanks all and good luck to those Aug 19th bandsters.

Wow! I can't believe you are home 4 hours after surgery! I know you feel great now and everything, but just take it easy. Sometimes day 2 can be worse than the op day. You don't want to overdo it.

And I don't know about the dehydration thing. I was hooked up to an IV for over 24 hours. Good luck!

Congrats!! Sounds like everything went really well!

I like the grinning part! I might be miserable after surgery, but I sure plan to grin for the rest of my life Make yourself sip at least a bit of water every 15 minutes, even if you don't feel like it. Dehydration will be bad, bad, bad.

Congratulations! I am glad everything went smoothly for you. It makes me less nervous for my first surgery hearing positive ones like yours.

Glad everything went well for you! I was hooked up to an IV for 24hrs. I went home the evening after my surgery. I found gas to be a bigger problem than pain.

Hope all goes well. Keep grinning!!!!!

Keep grinning, it's only going to get better!

Keep sipping, you don't want to dehydrate and end up back in the hospital!