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<!-- / icon and title -->I just wanted to share my great experience so far.
I had my surgery on Monday and I am really shocked at how good I am feeling because I am usually very sensitive to pain. I hardly have any pain at all, my left side feels like I took a punch but totally manageable, so I am skipping the pain meds. I have been able to manage and release the gas well too and I thank everyone for talking openly about that on this site as it prepared me for it! If you are thinking of having this surgery, I highly recommend my surgeon, Dr. Katkhouda at USC, he did an incredible job, I just can't say enough good things about him. I was up and walking around hours after the surgery and went home the next day. Mostly just a little soreness and feeling sleepy.
No regrets, I woke up in recovery and one of the first thoughts I had was "This wasn't so bad! I am so glad I did this!" When I checked the scale today and it was already down another 5 lbs, I had that warm fuzzy feeling all over again!