Lapband pain vs c section

[mom2trips06 0]

My surgery is scheduled for July 20. I had a c section for our triplets and did very well. The babies came home the day after I did and I was able to care for them with my hubby with no additional help. What would you say? Is the lapband pain comparable? Easier? Harder?

Thanks!

[Grandma26 1]

Everyones pain tolerance is different. I was banded 6/25/09. After reading alot of post I was expecting the worst, but I only has some minor discomfort the first night and next morning. Mostly gas in my left breast, not even enought to take pain medication. Regular tylenol relieved it. I even went to work the afternoon after my surgery. Please don't judge it by my experience, but I think if you did well after the c-section you should be fine. My doctor did say I could not lift anything heavier than my purse so please be careful with the kids.

Hugs to you! :tongue2:

[AudsMom 2]

You will do fine, i had a Csection also and i think the band was easier by far you only are in discomfort for a couple days. With my C i was hospitalized for a week though from an infection, but i dont think it was that bad at all...

Good luck!

[DanBar 0]

Not even close to the same amount of pain. I am two weeks post op and besides the incision marks on my stomach which are basically healed...I feel like I did before surgery. This is best thing I ever did... My husband had surgery the same day as me and he is back to normal also.

Surgery day and the next are the worst and that isn't bad. The hardest part I had was for the first week I couldn't get comfortable sleeping. But that is gone also...

My son is three weeks post op and he helped his friends move a couple of days ago. Not recommended but he is 19 and thinks he is invincible. But my point is he is not feeling anything either.

So good luck and enjoy the experience. I wouldn't change a thing... ps, I wasn't saying that a week and a 1/2 ago, but now I am! Expecially since I have lost 17 pounds since surgery :tongue2:

[Jachut 487]

I asked this exact question myself.

C-section is harder than the lapband, afterall, you're cut right open. But a c-section didnt slow me down for longer than a week and I barey noticed I'd had surgery after the lapband, by the next morning, I was completely mobile and fine.

[poodles.me 0]

We're all different. I had a much harder time with recovery from Lap Band then with my c-section.

[pfrance 1]

My surgery was a little different I had a hernia repair, I wasnt expect it but when my Dr. went in he noticed it. I was out for a week and was still weak when I went back to work. I lost 17lbs the first week. It took me a month just to feel back myself again.

[pfrance 1]

Hey keep me post on your surgery! Good Luck! Everything will be fine. Its a beautiful thing!

[SamB 0]

I am so glad that I saw this post. I had the same question. I am hoping that my insurance will come through next week so that I can have my surgery on July 17th. I have had 2 c-sections and did okay with both of them. Hopefully I will do just as well with my lap band surgery. Good luck with your surgery!

[slbedgood 0]

Hi Mom2trips06,

I am also at triplet mom, although my girls just turned 4. We also were in the process of adopting when IVF #5 worked, so we also have 4.5 year old daughter from China. I am guessing that the lap band surgery recovery will be easier than my c-section, but since I don't have surgery until July 23rd, I am just guessing.

Actually, one reason I think that this might work for me in terms of long-term weightloss is that the only time in my life I have had a small appetite, been full on little food and just not cared about eating was the only time I needed to do it, the last 4 months of my pregnancy. Once the girls got to a certain size (about 3 months into the pregnancy) the pressed on my stomach so much, I couldn't eat much. I had to keep drinking Boost Hi-Protein shakes just to get enough nutrition in. So, I am hoping that my appetite for food after banding will be similar to having 3 babies crushing my stomach. But, without the unpleasant feeling of them crushing my lungs and bladder also. ha-ha.

Stacey

[Iris_L 0]

I had a c section and I find the lapband procedure to be nothing too huge. I have two incisions and most of the soreness around the incision are gone. Good luck.

[Jachut 487]

Stacey, it will cheer you to know that I asked that same question - whether being banded would be like being pregnant and for me, it IS.

My first two pregnancies, I could eat fine, I'm tall and have lots of room for an 8lb baby in there. I never got breathless, full on small amounts of food etc. My pregnancies never encroached on my lung and stomach space.

But the third one, phew. Little monster was completely breech the entire time, and I had no bump at all until about 30 weeks - she was so far inside me and up into my abdomen for some reason - I barely even showed at full term. That pregnancy, I would only get hungry when I really needed to eat for energy, I'd get the hunger pangs, eat about a cup of food and be stuffed and it would sit with me for ages.

I went home from hospital after having her almost 30lb lighter than when I'd conceived and she was a good 8lb baby.

I'd thought at the time, if only I could be like this all the time, and now I am!

However, head hunger, cravings and the desire to eat just because still come into it! But I can never eat very much at one sitting, although what is really not very much to someone else is now entirely normal to me and I'd say I eat a lot! But people say how can you not be starving on such a small lunch!

[anothermom 0]

I had 2 c sections and delivered first a 9lb15oz girl then 5 years later a 9lb4oz boy. On my way back to my room after the lap band just about a hour and a half out of recovery I told the transport guy that lap band was wose. I am 5 days out and I think for me the two are very simmalar. I think for me having a REALLY high BMI mabey increased my discomfort. But I haven't been in pain just sore. Easy on coughing, potholes, anything that affects the abdomen. So in that way they are simmalure. I think the lack of babies makes the hormones and the distraction from pain diffrent. Though, it is the begening of a new exciting life so that is the same. Good luck and I hope that the girls take it easy on you either way.

[AlaskaGirl77 0]

My lab pand recovery was nothing compared to my painless 3 C-section recoveries....I heal pretty fast though...my recovery is probably closer to the pain after getting a tooth pulled...3 days later it was as if it never happened...

[LaDawnS 2]

Congratulations on the triplets! Wow! How fun!:tongue_smilie: Yes, I agree with everyone else...the lapband surgery is nothing compared to a C-section. It'll be a breeze for ya!

Good luck and let us know how you're doin!