bartendergreg

FIVE WEEKS AFTER SURGERY. Things are even worse! I got the bad and dealt with horrible, I mean horrible GAS PAIN! And to all you lap banders it does go away! It takes like 4 days, may be 5. Its excruciating and walking is the answer. Forget Gas-X, Beano, and all the others. The gas is in your cavity and needs to be absorbed. Eat up your pain med and get some stool softener cause pain med binds you up, though your mostly on liquids then anyway. But the tragedy on my band is that I got an infection where the port is. Second one in all the thousands of bands my doctor has done. After the gas pain receded I had major pain all through my body. They found out I had a blood clot infection, probably due to the ban on hempfren and switch to Lovenox, and I was rushed into emergency surgery. They cut my big incision back open and drained it and now am left with a giant open wound on my stomach. The good news, at FIRST, was after the emergency surgery my pain was ALL GONE! Yet days after a horrible pain that travels from my left side, to my crotch, and to my right side has been going on for over 4 weeks. Everyday its in a new spot in my lower abdomen. The doctors are baffled and have no clue what it is. They says its still GAS somehow. I have had a cat scan and blood work up the ass and no answers! Everything says I'm fine but I have such bad pain I can't move! I have been living on my pain meds again and now the doctors are thinking "outside the box" and may think its a weird Colon infection due to all the antibiotics I have been taking or the tube to my band is wrapped around something they can't pin-point on the cat scan. Let me tell you I wish I never got this damn surgery! So much pain! So much trouble! So much time lost at work! I was healthy and just over weight. Barely passed a 40 BMI. Wife wants me healthy and I wanted to shed those pounds dieting would not do for me. I WISH I just stayed fat and never wasted my time. I feel this pain will never go away. It more then just gas and I think is unsolvable. Also dealing with this GIANT open wound. Its shrunk half way but is pretty disgusting and painful pulling gauze in and out and having to change it everyday. I can't swim. Waste of my time! If this pain is not answered I don't know what I am gonna do. I do heavy work and my job. Will not be able to continue with this abdomen pain. Well if any of this has happened to you please let me know! The doctors aren't used to this. Most surgeries are 100% successful.

I just got the band and the pain is unbearable. If I take my pain med before i go to sleep and don't move it dissapates a little but once i move laying down the gas pain is ridiculous. Gas-X has done nothing. Sitting up and walking feels a little better but I haven't released any gas yet. I will give the non stop waliking a try. I really hope this pain goes soon it is really bad. They said my galbladder surgery was going to be worse then the lap band. They are sooooo wrong. My galbladder surgery went beautifly. Barely any pain. I would rate my galbladder surgery one a scale of 1 to 10 a 2 or 3, this lap band surgery a 8 to 9. Any other adiice would be appriciated.