LizTex2587

Thanks Tstorm...this has been the worst part....not even the food thing has been as bad as the no breathing thing! Hoping next week is better..

Every doc has different guidelines, but mine doesn't recommend that you ever drink fruit juice or eat much fruit and veggies when you move to regular foods...I guess it has something to do with the strength of the enzymes in the juice that can act as an irritant. Like i said, every doc is different, so yours may not have any such guidelines.

I like to drink Wyler's Light peach tea drink mix...and then I also like to drink warm spearmint tea with splenda!

What exactly is a stricture? Did they say what caused it?

I'm glad you aren't having pain like I did! Felt like there was an elephant on my chest!

In the hospitalthey brought me a tray that had tea, jello,

It will be over and done with before you know it! it was my second surgery, but I still got really scared. I finally started to calm down when they put my IV in, and the bartender gave me my cocktail! Lol. Just know that there will be pain and discomfort afterward due to the gas that they pump you up with, but it does get better each day. Just do the breathing the want you to do, and walk as much as possible. That will help get the gas out! You will be just fine! These folks do it over and over again everyday so you can rest assured they know what their doing.

It took me about for days to have a bm. Yesterday was just little turds(lol)...but this morning......OMG......I've already gone twice and feel like there is more. Don't be in too much of a hurry.

Yes. I've been doing them

Yeah, I was having problems even in the hospital. They kept putting the oxygen on me, but this stuff didn't get really bad and painful until tonight.

Must be a Monday thing! I was sleeved on the 18th and I have fluid on my lungs due to the anesthesia. Tonight it feels like someone is stabbing me in the chest on my left side when I breathe, and when I laid down to sleep around 9:00, I felt like I was suffocating. I totally panicked. Waiting to hear back from my surgeon and hoping it's not progressed to a partially collapsed lung!

Congrats to all of you getting your surgery dates and times! It will all be over before you know it!

Soooo I'm 4 days out and other than having normal pains, I was doing fine until yesterday and I started to run a fever that got up to 102. I called my surgeon and he told me that sometimes the anesthesia can cause fluid to gather in the lungs and he told me to use my spirometer more often, and sure enough the fever went down and I felt much better. Today I woke up and my stomach kind of hurts in the normal way it has been, but my stomach feels more swollen than before and slightly distended. I don't have any more pain than I have been, I'm just a little concerned. Hoping that there aren't any leaks. What are the usual symptoms?

I'm taking hydrocodone for pain. I just started having bowel movements (if that's what you call them)last night around 3am, so I'm wondering if somehow that doesn't have something to do with it.

I'm taking hydrocodone for pain. I just started having bowel movements (if that's what you call them)last night around 3am, so I'm wondering if somehow that doesn't have something to do with it.

I know that I was extremely nauseous but all it turned out to be was gas coming up, but seriously it felt exactly like I was going to throw up and then it would just be a burp!

My nurse said that even if I hadn't started before the surgery, I probably would've started right after. She said it happens all the time, I guess the physical trauma of having surgery kick-starts it...so take your feminine products! Also, the surgery stopped my period! I was set for at least 2 or 3 more days and the next day, it was all done!

I had a similar fever today and I called my docs answering service and left a message. When he called me back, I told him that I had a fever of 101, then 102 and so on. He said that since none of my incisions were swollen or abnormally red that the cause of the fever was because sometimes the anesthesia can cause Fluid to gather in the lungs making it hard to take full breaths. He said to just use my incentive spirometer ( that thing with the hose that you blow in and the blue hockey puck lookin thing goes up and down) and set a goal at 1800 or 2000 and try to do it more often than once an hour. Let me tell you folks, this helped me so much!! Within an hour, I started to feel better and my fever went down about 2 hours later. He said you kind of have to force those lungs to pop back open.

For whatever reason, I can't sleep on either side. It puts a lot of strain on my stomach...I've tried using pillows for support, but the only time it kind of feels ok is if I lay sideways in the recliner.

My mother looked at my belly button incision and said that even though they didn't use actual stitches to close up ( they used some super strong crazy glue!), it looked like they kind of glued the top and bottom of my belly button together to close the incision...that combined with the fact that I have a tummy that still kind of hangs down constantly puts strain on it and causes pain. I have just started walking around with a small pillow at my stomach to kind of hold it up and take some of the pressure off.