Curious...

sparkling · March 5, 2006

Do fills hurt ? My band date is 3/23..was wondering how long a stay am i looking at was told 1-3 days

Pattman · March 5, 2006

Remeber that each person is dirrent and will experienmce different things; also that even if it were all the same, you might consider something on a different pain level as I would .... all that being said ... MY experiences with the band were/are:

I was admited on Wed had the surgery that morning and was released Thurs afternoon (I would have been released around 2 had the nurses taken me off the pump pain meds and started giving me oral meds sooner.

I have never felt any of my fills, my Dr. {as I would hope/imagine is the general practice with others} gives a local first - burns for a sec, no worse then getting any other kind of shot.

Hope this helps quell some of your fears (and probable insomnia ... lmao). I am sure {and hope} you will hear from others as well.

banded_for_life · March 5, 2006

Fills generally do not hurt, but everybody is different.

vinesqueen · March 5, 2006

My clinic doesn't use any sort of numbing stuff, they don't need to. Just a small pinch and we are done.

When I got a couple of fills by an interventional radiologist, it did hurt, and I needed the numbing shots and cream.

It all depends on how experienced your fill nurse/doc is.

And as for how long your stay is, well that all depends on a bunch of factors. I had to stay overnight because I was a high risk patient. I went home the next morning, but went shopping on the way home. My DH had to stay in hospital for several days because he was Super Super MO, and weighed 600 pounds. He had really bad swelling, and needed to stay until the swelling went down.

Most of the patients done by my clinic are done as an out patient.

freebit · March 8, 2006

The needle is very big and wide and it does hurt quit a bit. It hurts alot more if they fish around at all looking for the port. LOL....my surgery actually hurt less. Of course I actually was enjoying all of the drugs they gave me for the surgery. I actually felt great after my surgery. Weird. You may feel tightness in your band afterwards.

MyKdsDad · March 8, 2006

Sparkling, at my DW's doctor's office they numb the port area before giving you a fill. She had a bit of bruising afterwards, but they also had a little trouble finding her port. They needed the LONG needle and all they had were the short needles.