how bad is the post op pain?

[Penweary 1]

Hey Foxy,

I can tell you I had pain for about 4 days that was truly associated only with gas and my port area. I went back to work after 2 weeks, I waited that long because I do some heavy lifting when I work, I was able to sleep on my side 5 days out with a pillow and I was comfortably on my belly by week 4. Hope this helps and congratulations.

As far as the vomiting etc, as long as you follow the rules and progress through your liquids/soft solids AS ORDERED you should be just fine.

[2B me 0]

I had very little pain took min amount of meds for 3 day. I'm a school bus driver and was back to work in 7 days.

[discomom63 0]

I have had 2 c-sections also and the pain was NOTHING compared to that. I really didn't think the pain was bad at all. That;s just me though. I know some people on here have really bad gas pains and stuff like that. I was fortunate, cause I didn't. The little gas pain that I did have, I was able to walk around and it got the gas moving and I was able to "pass" it. After I left the hospital after 24 hours I only took my pain meds once and that was for the 40 minute ride home. After that I was able to do fine. Best of luck with your surgery and don't worry, everything will be fine and then you be on the losing side.

Lori

[discomom63 0]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I had my surgery on a Wednesday and I was at work the following Thursday ( a week later) working in a Kindergarten class room. My nurse says the lap band surgery is usually one week to normal things.

[lpglarry 1]

hey i/m getting banded on dec 7th too, good luck, i had my pre surgery tests today ,can/t wait i am sooooooooooo ready for this

[gbakerc 2]

I think you mostly hear of the bad stories. I don't think you hear about those whose experience was a breeze like mine. I had almost no pain and felt totally fine within 3 to 4 days.

Greg

[ElfiePoo 109]

hey i/m getting banded on dec 7th too, good luck, i had my pre surgery tests today ,can/t wait i am sooooooooooo ready for this

It will go by so fast! I remember thinking that the last week would drag. It didn't. The day of surgery was just suddenly there. Now I'm 4 weeks postop and I can't believe it's been that long!

Good luck to you!

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