How much post-surgical pain should I expect?

165B445 · May 19, 2016

I will have sleeve surgery on 5/26/16 and I'm feeling anxious, not sure what to expect. I had my gall bladder out 20 years ago. It was laparoscopic surgery, and I had 4 small incisions. I think I was in surgery about an hour. I had virtually no pain from this. My surgery was in the early afternoon and by midnight I was doing laps around the ward. I had some tenderness in my abdomen for about 5 days, but that was it. I am not sure what to expect for pain with the sleeve surgery. I'd love to hear your experiences- how painful, how long did it last, etc. I know we are all different, and I'm willing to take pain meds if I need to- I just would really like some idea of what to expect!

I was sleeve 5/18... my pain was about 2-3 with pain pump. Now that I'm home with crushing pain meds percocet Q 4 hrs and reglan Q 8 and still softener. my pain 4-6... walking helps bring it down to 4... its from left side where he suture the muscle so no hernias. ..

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KristenLe · May 20, 2016

I haven't had WLS yet but I can't imagine it could be worse than the gallbladder pain I had before needing emergency surgery. Holy crap - if I had a sharp knife handy I would have considered taking my gallbladder out myself. I ended up staying overnight in the hospital and had one incision that was an issue (it had to be larger due to size of infected gallbladder) but I don't remember being in that much pain. I am fairly pain tolerant. I also had a similar experience as @@kmorri after surgery to repair a leg fracture - they misread my pain meds order and didn't give me any post-op. The pain was really bad and it took a while for meds to catch up.

jccanada · May 20, 2016

My gallbladder surgery recovery/pain was much worse than gastric bypass.

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165B445 · May 20, 2016

Everything is tolerable in hospital but when they take pain pump away and it's time to kick I out...????i got nervous... but talk with a friend aussiegirl and she has help me thru this with tips ... I'm just try to get 48oz of Water in with pain relieve and anti nausea meds... and walking, sipping 1-2 is a hr... you have to walk, strangely is a form of relief...

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