was your tummy swollen afterwards?

[Alex5089 0]

I am 12 days post-op and am still quite swollen. I have lost 10 lbs. and pants that fit me before surgery do not button. I read on another post-surgery site that sometimes post-laprascopic swelling can last months! Despite the weight, I always had a small waist......oh well. I just starting icing today and plan on taking some powdered bromalain...a pineapple extract supposedly that reduces surgery swelling. Will let you all know if it works!

[Pixi 0]

i'm super swollen as well. i swear my tummy is twice if not triple the size it was. i didn't bruise at all though but i'm still very sore.

[melodicone 0]

I'm just at two and a half weeks out now and the swelling I had is mostly gone now. Though right around my port is still numb-ish. My doctor said on Tuesday that it was fairly common, but it weirds me out.

[Lilpeach_059 0]

I guess i should put an update here! Turns out i had/have a huge hematoma. I knew something was not right....I had surgery on 7.23.2009 and I noticed the swelling the first time i saw my belly. I was generally swollen but my port site was huge...enough to make people think i was secretly pregnant!! I did try to ask around here but I was on morphine (stayed overnight at hospital) and I know my questions were not descriptive enough!

So i had the swelling but no brusing. Everytime i would get full or get gas It felt like the two largest incisions were going to just burst open! I would hold my stomach (reduce the tension/gravity) to alievate the incisions. I returned to work 9 days post op and at ten days post op i began to feel like a train hit me. I could hardly walk or speak and finally my port incision started to leak and now i have some relief. Today is thursday and i have been bleeding nonstop since late sunday/early monday..but the pain is gone. My pain was so bad that hydrocodone did nothing for me!! Im losing so bad much Fluid that i lost 3lbs in two days! But its all old blood not active bleeding.

So if you know something is not right...it probably isnt. My surgeon kept sending me home until i showed up bloody and hunched over and not able to walk...then he admitted something might just be wrong. Thanks for reading...i know i can sometimes be too longwinded!!!

[2911plans 16]

I guess i should put an update here! Turns out i had/have a huge hematoma. I knew something was not right....I had surgery on 7.23.2009 and I noticed the swelling the first time i saw my belly. I was generally swollen but my port site was huge...enough to make people think i was secretly pregnant!! I did try to ask around here but I was on morphine (stayed overnight at hospital) and I know my questions were not descriptive enough!

So i had the swelling but no brusing. Everytime i would get full or get gas It felt like the two largest incisions were going to just burst open! I would hold my stomach (reduce the tension/gravity) to alievate the incisions. I returned to work 9 days post op and at ten days post op i began to feel like a train hit me. I could hardly walk or speak and finally my port incision started to leak and now i have some relief. Today is thursday and i have been bleeding nonstop since late sunday/early monday..but the pain is gone. My pain was so bad that hydrocodone did nothing for me!! Im losing so bad much Fluid that i lost 3lbs in two days! But its all old blood not active bleeding.

So if you know something is not right...it probably isnt. My surgeon kept sending me home until i showed up bloody and hunched over and not able to walk...then he admitted something might just be wrong. Thanks for reading...i know i can sometimes be too longwinded!!!

Lilpeach I am so sorry to know you went through that. You do not need to apologize for sharing your journey. You could possibly help someone else identify a problem in the future. I pray that you are on the road to recovery and that being banded will now be a positive tool in your life.

[melodicone 0]

I just found out that I have a hematoma too. Well, I described my puffyness below my port site and how it was a slightly different color and my nurse said that's what it was. She said if it got bigger or started bothering me to come in and they'd drain it. She said most of the time the body will absorb it back in so I'm giving it until Wed then if it's still there I'll probably go in.

[Lilpeach_059 0]

I wish they would have offered to drain mine!!! The pain was unbearable at first...triple the pain from surgery!! I think mine is done leaking (7 days later) but I still have this orange/yellow discharge....spoke with surgeon over the phone and he said it was just old blood. Im not too sure about that...but he did give me antibiotics so thats good. Now im afraid my incision is going to open up even futher because its constantly wet (from blood) and the glue that was holding my incision together slid off from being wet all the time. It is slowly stretching open but i hope all goes well.

Edited August 10, 2009 by Lilpeach_059

[melodicone 0]

OMGosh! That is seriously scary! I had surgery 3 days before you and all my incisions are nearly healed. I also have no pain from mine either so I guess I'm lucky there! I hope yours continues to get better!

(((many hugs)))

[Lilpeach_059 0]

Thanks! The other incisions are almost healed...just this stinkin hemtoma.

Im glad you are doing ok, thanks again!