I'm so sorry for you!! Are you home? Is it normal to be in so much pain? I hope all's okay and you get some relief soon.

You should not be in that much pain. I would call your surgeon. If you are gassy, walk, walk, walk!!!! Otherwise a talk with the surgeon is in order.

Wow...good for you for being honest about how painful it was! Sorry you are in so much pain though! Don't they give you alot of pain meds in the beginning? Did you have any complications? Hope you feel better soon!!!

They only give you so many pain meds, and then ween you off because even though they are via i.v. they can upset your stomach...but my stomache was fine. The pharmacy won't deliver, and I have no help to get me meds. My daughter knew of another pharmacy that will deliver, so the surgeon's office called them in, but they never brought them..though they told me they were. Now I have to wait til tomorrow for antinausea meds...and I can barely hold anything down without feeling sick.

The complications were that my blood pressure was dropping, heart rate going up. Unbearable pain!!! And, yes, this amount of pain is normal. I had to be in the hospital for 4 days...and could have stayed another day-today, even. They wanted to boot me on day 2!!!! Effing crazy! The nurses also did not want to boost me in the bed...nor when they left me lay in the hall in a bad position on a gernie while waiting for another scan to look for leaks. I have bad asthma and my lungs were still part collapsed from the vent--which happens to everyone...but which affects an asthmatic more. After the scan, they techs left me lay for 2 hours in the hallway in supine position. All my effort of breathing went out the window and I lost a day of recovery. No one seemed to care about that, except my surgeon who said she would try and make sure I had a normal day and that my pain meds were not missed. Almost seemed like half the nurses were bothered that I wanted the door closed as I tried to ambulate to the rest room. One made a comment that I would chew her head off if she didn't close the door. When I first got to my room, there was a woman there getting discharged, who had visitors, who would not shut the hell up. I was in so much pain, and the staff would not make her have respect. I finally said that I asked for a private room because of my PTSD, which they knew about, and that if I was a soldier, that PTSD would be cared for, too. Finally, only then, did they clear out the other bed, and not fill it unless a trauma victim needed it. The nurses the first few days were mean! I felt no caring or kindness toward me until the very end of day 2...like 3rd shift...Marie was her name.

The surgeon did tell me that the surgery went very well and that I am her star patient...said I was "in shape" and they knew it by how my body tolerated everything in surgery. I never thought I'd hear that about fat-ole-me..but it's true...trying to eat healthy, and exercising a few times a day--which amounts to walking, made a huge difference.

They gave me a nurse who will come to my house a couple times a week just to look at my incisions and take my vitals. I asked the woman to help me with the shower, and she said no. What's the point!? She also was repeating herself, did not listen to my directions, and annoyed me in general...knocking over my little cup of protein shake as she leaned on my pillows to get something...ridiculous. She did not offer to get my meds from somewhere for me, either. That is what i need help with.

I recommend to everyone here, that you severely exhaust ALL alternatives to losing weight before taking on this massive tearing up of your guts! Heed my words, because though some people are darn lucky to not feel much...you may be one of the one's who suffer endlessly, like me. See if you can find another way.

My son has been home for 2 hours and is trashing the kitchen, already...already I have to yell at him...which is making me feel sad and cry.

sorry about your discomfort/agony. i also, had an unbearable first week. my pain was not relieved at all in the hospital. after five days home found out i had a splenic infarcture. i have been uncomfortable every moment of the last two weeks. i am now covered in a head to toe rash from the pain meds. whoever said this was the easy way out has no flipping clue. i am just trying to take it moment by moment. hang in there!

I also seem to have a rash forming on my buttocks near the separation. I showed the nurse--who was kind of nitwitty--and she said there isn't one...but i know something is there. So I've been using a cream that is mild and that works on rashes, and airing that part of my skin out. It could be a little reaction from the binder.

Do u think it would be easier if u had pain meds to help control the pain..I am scheduled to have my surgery next Thursday and this have scared the crap out of me. Do u take anything for pain?

I wrote out an answer to this and it disappeared!Yes, there were 3 pain meds in hospital that together took the edge off....they stop the auto drip, then stop the torodol. I had to beg them to get me the oxycodone because it absolutely could not be filled anywhere else. The only other thing that was helping, surprisingly, was tylenol....for the headaches and aches in the the body. I had to make them stay on top of giving me my pain meds. They want you to have a ton of pain--which I did, before they give you anything. They left me in supine position, with half way collapsed lungs, for 2 hours! No one would help me. I began to yell and demand they do something about it...I had to pee really badly as well. The care I got was less than what it should have been. During that time, there was no pain meds. I just now got my Tylenol delivered. Pharmacy nearby got bought out by CVS, and now the service sucks. So I had to call someone in the next town like 10 miles over to get my Tylenol, rest of my nausea meds and patches. Big thing for me to do now is try and increase protein, as I am not getting nearly enough. I also have tons of liquid meds here that take up my space in my stomache...just learned I can take teeny pills for the one, and don't have to take the other at all.But you need to get all your post op meds filled asap...don't wait!