For those of you who are banded - are you able to sleep on your stomach at some point AFTER you recover from surgery or will the port be in the way??? I am one who really sleeps better on my stomach and an worried that those days might soom be over.

I had my surgery 8/26 and have been sleeping on my stomach for a long time. I think after about 2 weeks I was able to turn to my stomach.

Honestly I slept on my stomach from night 2. First night I slept in bed on my side. I used a pillow to help brace my torso. night 2 was tummy time. I think it helped me heal quicker. Stretching out etc kept me from getting adhesions (scar tissue). It's not medical necessarily but it's logical. I've healed fine! :biggrin:

I could only sleep on my back with tons of pillows for the first week, week and a half after surgery but once I all the pain was gone I was able to go right back to sleeping on my side and belly.

I guess I must be super sensitive. I still cannot sleep on my stomach. It doesn't hurt, it just seems like I can feel my port. It may be my imagination. I can sleep on either side comfortably, but not the stomach. Go figure.

I sleep on my tummy all the time. I was able to move from my back to my tummy at about week 3 from surgery. I also have to finagle around my CPAP, too!

Hi... it took me about 6 weeks before I was really comfortable on my tummy, and Oh Boy! what a joy to stretch out.... up till then I was using pillows as support as I slowly went from back to side and over to

tummy sleeping... only area that sometimes hurts is if I do not lift myself before turning and drag the overweight area.. that seems to pull on the muscles around the port... but it is great to finally sleep on my tum. Cheers and Good Luck, Trish.

I've been sleeping on my tummy for about two weeks already... I'm a month post op.

teri

Two weeks for me.

It took me a very long month before I could sleep on my stomach or side and even now (3 months post - op) I still have some discomfort sometimes.

I am a stomach sleeper big time. It only took me a couple weeks and I was able to go back to my stomach :biggrin:

Thanks for all your feedback - there is hope out there that I will be able to return to normal at some point. Surgery is still a month away.