Hi all,

Since getting out of surgery on 07/07, I have noticed a pressure feeling at my diaphragm and the feeling of needing to burp really, really badly, but I can't get anything to come up.

Is this due to swelling because of band placement and will it eventually go away? I have been trying to sip, sip, sip, but the pressure is really bothersome. Other than that no gas pains, no shoulder pains. Feeling okay other than needing to burp. I have also been taking the gas X strips, and have been moving gas the other way.

Thank you so much,

Paulette

Thanks! I was banded on the 7th as well and I am experiencing the same problems. I had a hernia repair and I am so bloated and gassee that I can't stand it. For the most part I feel pretty good, a bit soar of course but this gas thing is really a bummer. I'm taking the gasX-strips I'm so glad you guys mentioned it here I would have been out here trying to figure out what meet the liquids only guidelines.

I think I'm having spasms in the area beginning where the band is, up my esophagus to my throat and somehow the pain radiates to my brain. I thought it was gas, but now I'm beginning to wonder.

I'm having to take the pain killer to get them to subside whether I have had anything to drink or not. I'm able to get and keep fluids down without pain, but then I'll have spasms that are AWFUL.

I'll be calling the surgeons office again today to see if there is anyting to make it stop and if it is normal. I too wouldn't wish it on anyone. I'm now afraid that it's a perm. side effect of having the band and that I'll have to have it removed since I refuse to continue to feel this forever! :thumbup: