Shocked how painful

[aleeman 3]

Surgery was yesterday boy I had no idea how painful it was going to be. I’m honestly shocked.

[Jade5 58]

8 hours ago, aleeman said:

Surgery was yesterday boy I had no idea how painful it was going to be. I’m honestly shocked.

Hang in there, it will pass. Take your pain meds and do exactly what your doctor says. You will be fine.

[CINNAMON 2015 43]

Hi, Sorry to hear that you're having such discomfort. I had a Roux N Y Bypass. My Surgeon did it through Laparoscopy 2 years ago & I had no pain what so ever! I had the BEST Dr. Call your surgeon, there is no need for you to be suffering! Good Luck!

[aleeman 3]

Mine was laparoscopic as well but he probably puts so much gas in and they had to cut through two c-section scars and Tummy Tuck scars. So surgery took twice as long.

[JohnnyCakes 593]

yea i was surprised at the pain level too.

but it goes away within days so just tough it out.

[KimTriesRNY 1,853]

One thing I have realized reading these forums....we all have differing amounts of pain, especially as all of us have different levels of pain we can tolerate.

I had a lot of burning, stinging pain at an incision on my right, but no gas pain as I was walking so much. Others had lots of gas pain, or left side pain. How I have measured my progress is this....Am I improving daily? The answer is yes.

Follow any restrictions. Take your medicine as prescribed. You should see small improvements daily.

I am one week out today.

[Luisajfc 402]

Yeap my first moment coming out of surgery... was horrible. After that it was manageable. ( with my pump med)

[aleeman 3]

Guess I didn’t read much about how painful it was going to be. Today is better but it’s not what I expected 🙄

[Luisajfc 402]

Yeap my first moment coming out of surgery... was horrible. After that it was manageable. ( with my pump med)

[aleeman 3]

No pain pump. I have to beg a nurse to get them to bring something. Then I think something weird going on here, the nurse leaving her last shift said I had 30 ml when I only had 15 ml. I even have my husband here seeing everything I do, so I know I wasn’t just mistaken.

Then I paged for the nurse three times and waited over an hour to get meds. By the time she showed up I was bawling and crying and the meds barely would work.

[KimTriesRNY 1,853]

1 hour ago, aleeman said:

Then I paged for the nurse three times and waited over an hour to get meds. By the time she showed up I was bawling and crying and the meds barely would work.

As a nurse in a hospital, this is unacceptable and needs to be reported to the charge nurse or supervisor. No patient should be waiting an hour for pain medications.

So sorry you are receiving such poor nursing care.

[aleeman 3]

Thank you for your kind words. I did report this to my surgeon and then received apologies. It was very troubling.