iv just had my lap band out on Friday at 10am I was out of surgery by 1pm and was only in a little bit of discomfort but then they gave me morphine and I was fine...I was on morphine drip for the rest of that day and night then my morphine was taken away ( morphine is amazing) I wasn't in any pain while on morphine...getting up and down was a little sore BUT just take your time moving around and it's all good! I was worried the pain would suddenly slam back into me because I was in SOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! much pain when the lap band was put in and only given Panadol/paracetamol BUT no I was tired but there was no major pain...I had lunch which was just liquids - vege juice, milk, tea, apple juice... I ended up drinking the little apple juice, the little milk and had two small cups of tea but the vege juice tasted like sh$t I was in no pain and had now been off the drugs for 5 hours i was taken off all drips etc...because I was weeing, farting, drinking plenty of water and felt fine after my "liquid lunch" i was given 2 Panadol/paracetamol tablets and they went down fine...i asked if I could go home as I was in no pain and didnt see the point in sitting in hospital when I was fine with liquids, had no drips hooked up to me and I wasn't in any pain.....they made me eat ice cream because its a slight solid and it went down fine then I was discharged it's now Sunday morning! and I'm home I took one Panadol/paracetamol in the afternoon and then another at 9.00pm just before going to bed....iv just woken up and it's 7:51am (sunday) and I feel great I'm not in any pain getting up and down is still a slow movement but that's for the best I don't want to rip anything... for the rest of the week I'm sticking to liquids and slowly moving on the solids but taking small steps trying things like yoghurt, purée fruit etc.. I thought I was going to be in so much pain because putting the lap band in hurt so much but seriously i barely feel like if been in surgery! I'm taking a week off work to recover but my doc said I could go back after a few days :s haha but I thought I'd be on the careful side...
