schaunabimler

I will be banded 2 weeks on Monday... I was feeling really good by day 6 and no pain whatsoever by day 8-9ish. I feel 100% normal at day 12 my port area was really sore on Monday and took a few days to recover. Good luck and congrats on the weight loss so far. I'm down 14lbs at day 12. It's slowed ways down this week tho!

My stomach gurgled so much the first week....and sooooo much gas. Monday will be two weeks for me...it does go away for the most part!

Every surgeon must do first fills differently because the program I'm following the doctor does the first fill 2 weeks after surgery. He said in his experience that patients were starving waiting 4-6 weeks for the first fill so he does the first at 2 weeks. I'm looking forward to it because I have to eat every 2 hrs to keep from being hungry already and I'm one week out!

Very good information guys thank you My surgeon is going to love all the new information I've learned!!

Hi everyone! I've been lurking for a few days now reading about things that I've found out are all common after having the band. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for all the advice you give! It seriously helps! . My story: After having 3 kids and reaching a high of 296 I decided enough was enough. About 2 years ago I got down to 231 on my own through serious diet and exercise in 5 months. But since then I have maintained around the 240ish area. Just shortly before Xmas I found out that my new insurance would cover my surgery (well besides the 1500$ deductible) and decided to start the process. And boy was it a process just to have surgery!! I had my dietician, psychiatric evaluation, exercise assessment, and bariatric visit all the first two weeks of January. I had my first surgeon visit January 16th then waited about 2 weeks for insurance approval. My surgery was March 4th. My first 2 days were rough compared to other stories I read on here. I have so much co2 pains and the pressure on my chest area was horrible, no pain killers would take it away. On top of that I was extremely nauseous. I ended up throwing up my first night after going for a walk with my nurse. Day 2 was just as bad cuz I was feeling really sore! I was super afraid to leave the hospital because my pain control was not good. I'm happy to say every day has gotten way better and I'm currently 5 days from surgery and the only problems I seem to have are no bowel movements yet since surgery (plan to start taking something for that today) and gas. Holy man it's a rumble factory in there. It's freaking constant! My poor husband lol. I do feel some pulling pain from the band which I do hope goes away but otherwise I feel great! Energy is back and even got the dishes done today! I'm very nervous about things like food getting stuck and all that dang slime you guys talk about but it's part of the process so ill take it as it comes! So far so good (except I'm so over liquids already haha!)