I was home by 10:30 am Friday. It was good to be there. No problems with the ride home, still NO PAIN! First Day PO you really just feel tired and beat it was hard to get down the liquids not from the LB stand point just because you forget. I did start my walking around the back yard right away! It felt really good to be off my back and on my feet then it happened the biggest and longest FART I could imagine!!!!! boy did that feel good! hehehe! From that moment on I have been a little tooting fool! I still have the same Gas in the left shoulder and back and now it feels as though it is across my sternum area. It is very uncomfortable! I got down a protein shake and I felt less shaky, I am still going out and walking every chance I remember this really helps and I am drinking all that I can every hour. I used a lot of Tylenol the first and second days PO. I do feel as though someone has been on the inside of me having a boxing match, it is not pain but extreme soreness all over. I slept much better Saturday night.

My surgery was 3/20/09 and I felt the same as you describe your 1st and 2nd day post op. I have the shoulder gas pain, I can suggest to you gas x chewables they ease the pain, and the walking is very helpful I did it at the hospital. Since I had to stay due to requirements of our insurance I was walking off the pain plus the pain medication the hospital provided. I wish you the best in your weight loss sucess.