Pressure

[Tally23 0]

For almost all of today I have had this presure type feeling. It feels like it is air trying to come up from my stomach through my port. Gas x did help for just like 30 minutes and now it is back. It feels like it is gas but I am not sure. I almost feel like I could burp but I cant. Its really starting to hurt. Any advice?

[Cocoabean 430]

Congrats on your surgery! It could be the gas used during the surgery. Walk, walk, walk. Also try a heating pad.

If what you are describing is what I felt, it was pain in the upper left quadrant of my abdominal area. Walking really helped.

[Tally23 0]

Also with this pressure feeling- It happens right after I swallow spit. If I spit it into a cup then I have no pain. Could it be that I am also swallowing air. Is this slimming? This happens even when I dont eat.

[reverie 49]

It's not sliming; that happens when food gets stuck and can't go down. Just try to walk as much as you can and use more Gas-X. It'll get better soon.

[Lap2Fab 3]

Walking has helped me too, and also, if it's really painful, I put two pillows on the side of my bed and I lay my head on them while bending over with my feet on the ground. I have found that the gas actually passes and I can burp instead of just feeling the pain from it.

[Cocoabean 430]

Also with this pressure feeling- It happens right after I swallow spit. If I spit it into a cup then I have no pain. Could it be that I am also swallowing air. Is this slimming? This happens even when I dont eat.

Did you have a hiatal hernia repaired at the time you were banded?

[MollyRN 28]

Walking has helped me too, and also, if it's really painful, I put two pillows on the side of my bed and I lay my head on them while bending over with my feet on the ground. I have found that the gas actually passes and I can burp instead of just feeling the pain from it.

I totally spent hours doing the same thing the days after my surgery! Funny!

[Tally23 0]

No hernia repair that I am aware of. I hope it does go away. It can get painful

[Lap2Fab 3]

No hernia repair that I am aware of. I hope it does go away. It can get painful

Do you have a heating pad? It helps too...and keep taking the gas x, almost before the pain starts. It really has helped me. I sneezed today and I thought I was bleeding all over the place, it hurt soooo bad, worse than any gas pain has yet. My husband laughed at me because he thought I was trying to be funny, it wasn't, I seriously thought my sneeze ripped open my wounds! Ouch....I won't forget that for a long time!