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Hey everyone. I really need help with this and the nurses seem baffled. I was banded on 8/5/2010. I had some initial diarrhea the first 5 days, but then it went away. But when I switched to puree, I started having horrible cramping and runny, powdery, watery stools (sorry for the grossness). One night I was even up all night because of the gas. I started taking something different for the gas and I have been doing the puree version of the BRATT diet for diarrhea (bananas, rice, applesauce, tea and toast), but I'm still having the diarrhea!!!! I've seen a lot of forums for diarrhea in the days immediately post op for people still on the liquid diet, but I'm already several days into the puree diet, and I REALLY REALLY need some help for this new diarrhea, that not even the BRATT diet is helping, since I am starting law school again THIS MONDAY!!! :'( (oh, and immodium wasn't really helping either) Has this or anything like this happened to anyone else? PLEASE HELP!!!!!

I really wanted the low profile port, but I didn't know about it until after the surgery. The current port causes some trouble when I try to sleep because I sleep on my side and it digs into the muscle. But when I asked my surgeon (or, actually, the nurse, since I haven't been able to talk to my surgeon since the surgery), the nurse said "Oh. Those must be really new. We don't do those" Wha????

Hey guys! New to the forum here and I think I may be having this problem too, but it's a little different and it really has me worried. My surgery was about 4 days ago, and I've been having what felt like stabbing or pressure pain right around the bottom of my sternum and my back. The thing is, it was usually triggered by trying to swallow the pain pills or thicker liquids (am still in the liquid phase), and THEN it would hurt when I breathed. It got so bad that I was doubled over in pain, and my mom took me back to the ER. Has anyone else had this problem? Was your chest pain brought on by consuming something? Should I be really worried? (also, having a lot of trouble with burping and also having the shoulder pain)

Hi barry. I just had the surgery about 4 days ago and the same thing was happening to me (wasnt on to solid yet either, thickest thing consumed was protien shake or thinned out yougert) and I was really worried. Has yours gone away yet? Would be really relieved to hear that it was just temporary and normal....