How long were you in the hospital ?

[jengilligan04 0]

Hello all, I just had my gastric sleeve last wednesday, and had to beg to be discharged sat, they were gonna let me go fri, but something off started to happen with my white and red bloid cell counts, and the hoapital had me on wrong bp meds, so bp reached through the roof with all the back pain from my stenosis and the drain!! So i begged sat and received!! I have been praying to my higher power this whole time, started journey in feb of this year!! Had to have 2 other problems fixed first!! Affraid to get on the scale, any advise???

[Andy810 28]

Admitted Saturday morning at 07:30 and I was offered the opportunity to discharge

myself at noon on Sunday.

As I live 2 hours from the hospital and we had to return at 09:00 on Monday morning

for the leak test x-ray and so as my wife doesn't drive we chose to stay another night.

Edited November 17, 2014 by Andy810

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

Hello all, I just had my gastric sleeve last wednesday, and had to beg to be discharged sat, they were gonna let me go fri, but something off started to happen with my white and red bloid cell counts, and the hoapital had me on wrong bp meds, so bp reached through the roof with all the back pain from my stenosis and the drain!! So i begged sat and received!! I have been praying to my higher power this whole time, started journey in feb of this year!! Had to have 2 other problems fixed first!! Affraid to get on the scale, any advise???

Don't get on the scale. Work on eating properly, drinking your Water and healing. Walk as much as you can. When you go back for your follow up the doctor will weigh you and then if you need to make any adjustments you can speak with your medical team.

[Kindle 8,667]

@@Kindle You are definitely my hero!!!

Gee, thanks, but I'm giving the credit to my surgical team. There were 5 of us that day and we were all out shopping the streets of Tijuana the day after surgery! 2 people in our "pack" spoke Spanish, so we were able to track down the world's yummiest homemade Popsicles on the second day. ☺️

Edited November 17, 2014 by Kindle

[jengilligan04 0]

Thank you sooo much, i was at the surgeon's office today to check for pneumonia, and i have to go back thursday to have my drain removed!!! Thank god, that hurts the worst outta everything!!!

[Bobby46 327]

^{I had surgery at 7am on Monday and was released at 3pm on Tuesday....but Tuesday morning they started the process of sending me home. I had very little pain, was walking and doing things on my own without the nurses helping....the whole experience was fantastic! I am a single mother of a 12 yr old boy....he helped with lifting things like laundry and he vaccumed for me a couple times a week. I slept, drank, walked, slept, drank, walked. All good! I could have gone back to work in a week but I relaxed for 4 before going back. Good Luck!!}

[jengilligan04 0]

Wow, thats so fantastic! Twice already i questioned my choice! But i know i made the right decission for my 18 yr old and 5 yr old i wanna live long enough to see my grandchildren, and i wasn't that heavy only 255 week before surgrry, but it was all belly fat, the worst kind!! So i had to do what i had to do!!! Thanks for all the feed nack!!

[yungshi 58]

I had my surgery on 11/14/14 at around 11-12 and didn't get released until Sunday around 9:30 am.

I had to stay an extra night because my lab work showed my white blood cells shooting through the roof. The surgeon was sure it was just my body reacting to surgery but he wanted me to stay an extra night to run tests again. All is well now, I've never missed my bed that much before!!!

[Mellie1776 7]

I was in for about 48 hours. I had my surgery on Tuesday 11/4/14 at 9am and I left the hospital on Thursday 11/6/14 at about 10am.

[ELI.p.m 44]

I don't want to stay only 1 day ????, atleast two . I don't think 1 day is enough to know If I had no complications.

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

It depends on you insurance and your doctor. I wish they had sent me home after one day. I was bored silly.

[landerr 10]

I was sleeved yesterday at 7am and was discharged today at 1pm. I had no complications and little pain.

[brians34 31]

This was the first surgery that I had had in my 51 year life. Had no what kind of pain to expect.

The pain was a little more than I expected and couldn't get comfortable in bed. The biggest incision seemed like it was constantly pulling and made me a bit nauseus so they were giving me something for nausea. They were willing to let me go after one night, but I asked to stay for one more just because of the nausea.