newly banded 11/1/11

[Sarah Munger Hale 0]

I just got banded a couple days ago and am looking for a place to get info and talk to people who have been thru it.

since the surgery i am fighting nausea, i can feel it inside me which is kinda weird, i get painful hiccups and explosive gastro issues. surgeon said this is normal and will go away soon. he called in anti nausea meds for me.

anyone else go thru this? when will it stop?

[LB4Me 35]

had the hiccups constantly after the surgery. I am on week 3 now and they are much less frequent. When they were bad, I sucked on a small lemon drop.

I have never been able to feel my band. I can feel my port sometimes, especially when I first wake up in the morning.

Just know it all gets better.

[Sarah Munger Hale 0]

had the hiccups constantly after the surgery. I am on week 3 now and they are much less frequent. When they were bad, I sucked on a small lemon drop.

I have never been able to feel my band. I can feel my port sometimes, especially when I first wake up in the morning.

Just know it all gets better.

thank you for the response. i am walking more and trying to find a way to take my pain meds without being grossed out by the flavor of crushed meds. ick. but i did discover (so far so good) that skim milk with the littlest bit of protien powder goes down ok so maybe i will mix it in there and the chocolate will help it go down. what do the hiccups mean? am i drinking too fast? i try to sip slowly.

[larrypdot 20]

I think most of us had the gas issues after the surgery, it does get a lot better but I still out fart anyone in my household. I did not have any nausea, although I guess it is quite common, my doctor did prescribe an anti nausea medication for me which I never took any of.