I was banded on 1/23/09 and I read about the recovery time being 3 to 4 days, so I expected to be back at work Tuesday. How naïve I was. Ha!

I woke up in recovery feeling I had been stabbed 5 times and then suckered punched. I had a flitting thought of "Oh God, I change my mind!" I woke up at 5:30 p.m., but didn't get home until 9:30 p.m. The issue was I was very nauseous and couldn’t muster the energy to walk over to the next room to get my x-ray. I finally just sucked it up and did it. I just wanted to curl up and go to sleep, but they wanted me to drink water. I managed to get some down and told the nurse I cannot do anymore. Right on queue, I jumped up and started dry heaving and instead of vomiting I expelled 2 large burps. Painful!!

I didn’t know how I was going to make it home, but I concentrated on bed. I need to get to my bed. My husband ran to the pharmacy and filled my prescription and gave me some. He’s so great. That night would have been okay because I would have just lulled myself to sleep on pain killers, but they had given me 4 bags of liquids and I had to run to the bathroom once or twice an hour. Each time, my husband had to wake up and help me out. The next day I realized I wasn’t putting too much pressure on my bladder and once I did they trips decreased.

I thought I was going to be back to work on Tuesday, but Sunday I called my manager and told her I underestimated things and might need more time. She understood. I then called a co-worker to make sure my open items would be covered. At the end of the conversation, she says…did you think you would be superwomen afterwards. I was like…well, yes. Ha! Now that keeps echoing in my mind. I’m not quite superwoman and it’s okay to take some time to recover. The world understands.

This is day 3 after surgery and I’m starting to walk around more, but not quite ready to clean or go for a walk outside like I hear others are doing. But everyone is different. I don’t have to be superwoman, just me.

I am sorry that you are having such hard time healing and i hope the next couple of days will be better.

I was just like you, thought I would be back to my life in a few days...ya right. I am 12 days post-op and am doing good but up till a week ago I was still in alot of pain. Now I get a weird feeling at the port site. It feels real hard and somewhat painful from time to time and other times I just feel the scare tissue. Woundering if my port is twisting. Hope you are getting better each day.

I was banded in July and I sometimes still have some slight feelings of pain around the port site - so it's normal don't worry. Good luck.

Hi everyone. I'm a new member and not used to chatting on line. I had my surgery in July 08. I've had four fills but I have never felt they did any good. Has anyone had this experience?

I haven't reached my first fill yet, but I would broach this subject in the Post-Op forums. There might be some people there that can relate and provide some advise.