I am only two days over my surgery and feeling pretty good. I do have a couple of questions and would appreciate the feed back since this is all very new to me. I seem to have the feeling of everything I drink sticking and not going all the way down. I have almost GERD feeling,sort of like a heart burn and pepcid ac has been helping. I have really stuck to the guidelines and have not taken anything I was not suppose to. Today is the first day of a protein shake, and it was wonderful. It seems like when I take the pain meds is when I really notice the symptoms. Is this normal and what is the best way to prevent it if any? I am walking a lot and that helps some, but I hate taking the pain meds because of the discomfort afterward, even when I disolve it. Thanks

Welcome to LBT, Katie, and congratulations on your surgery.

You're probably experiencing those symptoms due to the swelling from your surgery. It should ease up fairly quickly.

After a couple of days I moved from the prescription meds to liquid Tylenol for adults. If you feel like you can tolerate going off the stronger pain medication, maybe you would tolerate the liquid Tylenol better.

Are you sipping your protein drink? Also, I suggest the liquid pain meds as well. My doc put in a pain releif system so I didn't fill my script for heavy pain meds. I really didn't need them. There can be alot of swelling and sipping helps to get things down. I was told to sip everything the first couple of weeks and I had little discomfort.

try sipping hot chicken broth with ytour meds it helps loosen up swelling and help the medicine go down... i also crushed the pills and ate them with yogurt